From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:22:43 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.4.8) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:48:11 -0700, David Mosberger wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:51:32 +1000, Keith Owens said: > > Keith> If you are going to keep both DRM 4.0 and 4.1, please do it > Keith> the same way that Alan Cox did, to reduce the number of > Keith> solutions to this "problem". The -ac kernels have, in > Keith> drivers/char/Config.in > >At the moment, only 4.0 is there. Perhaps I should include both once >4.1 works for IA64. I recommend doing it now. The ia64 patch is much larger that it need be because you delete the 4.1 code as well as adding back the 4.0 code. If you just add 4.0 as drm-old (the same way as AC) then you get a smaller patch footprint. Not to mention making it easier to track Linus's and AC's kernels. The only downside is that ia64 users have to select drm-old instead of drm, but that is already true for a lot of non-ia64 users.