From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] vga16fb: refuse to load in face of other
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:54:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100725115424.GA2837@joi.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimQZ6_+o=3pGa6hGbeFU99RMPFRmO+ndMZDHZMS@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 06:42:48PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Marcin Slusarz
> <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:20:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:19:23 +0200
> >> Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > We don't want vga16fb to mess with hardware initialized by other driver.
> >> > Detect it and refuse to load.
> >> > It fixes nouveau interrupt storm on some machines.
>
> Can't we keep this all inside vga16fb?
That's what v1 did (*), but Andrew didn't like it.
> just have it walk PCI tree
> looking for a primary VGA card, and if it has a driver bound, just
> refuse to bind.
>
> Dave.
(*) http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/20/244
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-25 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-20 19:19 [PATCH] vga16fb: refuse to load in face of other driver Marcin Slusarz
2010-07-23 0:20 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-23 13:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Marcin Slusarz
2010-07-23 15:00 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-07-25 8:42 ` [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] vga16fb: refuse to load in face of other Dave Airlie
2010-07-25 11:54 ` Marcin Slusarz [this message]
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