From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:55:20 +0000 Subject: Re: sysdev_class use from DRM Message-Id: <9e47339105063013557e3539d5@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <9e473391050624071263dfbea7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e473391050624071263dfbea7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On 6/30/05, Greg KH wrote: > > Don't tell me to merge DRM/fbdev, that fight has been going on for two > > years now. >=20 > Well, that's the only real way to fix this. A simple single driver that > handles the pci registering and doles out the resources and callbacks to > the different DRM or fbdev driver is the way to go. I thought you all > were working on this a year ago... Merging fbdev/DRM has a lot in common with removing devfs from the kernel. There are numerous, vocal defenders of their rights to do things the way they want to. There are also major defenders of the right to hit a magic key (VT swap) and have a whole other set of device drivers take over the hardware. Every time I think a merge is going to happen somebody new shows up and it all falls apart. The last round was that the fbdev drivers aren't well tested on the x86 (they are on other architectures). My response was, let's get some bug reports and fix the problems if there are any. Other people want to create yet a third set of drivers which avoids use of the existing fbdev ones. My preference would be for Linus to refuse all patches from both fbdev and DRM until a compromise is reached. I have wasted too much time trying to get a merge to happen and I've switched to working around the various problems. --=20 Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id=16492&op=CCk _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel