From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcelo Tosatti Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:14:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre6 drm-4.0 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 Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:13:15AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > > In my opinion it's extremely bad style to remove drm-4.0 from the 2.4 > > kernel (remember, it's supposed to be a *stable* kernel series). > > Agreed. Stil I don't think specific ports should fix that up - this > will sooner or later leed to a full fork. > > > As > > far as I know, there are binary-only drivers out there that work only > > with drm-4.0. I don't think it's fair to break someones working setup > > just because of a kernel upgrade. > > _Any_ kernel update may break binary drivers. > > > But if there is a good reason to remove it, I'm certainly willing to > > listen. My understanding is that for Keith it's good enough if > > drm-4.0 goes away in 2.5. > > My opinion is that including the drm changes in the ia64 patch just makes > the diff to handle much bigger. > > Marcelo, are you willing to put in drm 4.0 as option in 2.4.18 again? Why would I ? What is wrong with the current drm version ?