From: "Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dri and udev
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:23:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-107258971426359@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-107251004911161@msgid-missing>
On Dec 27, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com> wrote:
>My personal opinion on this is that it is insane for two device drivers to be
>trying to share the same same piece of hardware - it's multitasking for device
>drivers. I also don't think udev/sysfs are set up to deal with two device
>drivers claiming the same piece of hardware.
I fully agree. This also has the downside that hotplug cannot
automatically load the DRM modules.
(And probably many more people need DRM than they need fbdev...)
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Marco | [3810 esbuHOWw6GXX6]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-28 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-27 7:24 dri and udev Jon Smirl
2003-12-27 16:36 ` Kay Sievers
2003-12-27 17:08 ` Jon Smirl
2003-12-27 19:13 ` Greg KH
2003-12-27 19:13 ` Greg KH
2003-12-27 19:13 ` Greg KH
2003-12-27 19:14 ` Greg KH
2003-12-27 20:57 ` Jon Smirl
2003-12-27 20:57 ` Jon Smirl
2003-12-28 1:23 ` Marco d'Itri [this message]
2003-12-28 1:23 ` Marco d'Itri
2003-12-30 0:36 ` Greg KH
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