From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265924AbUBQAEt (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:04:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265941AbUBQAEt (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:04:49 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:53921 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265924AbUBQAEs (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:04:48 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.3-rc3 radeonfb: Problems with new (and old) driver From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Eger , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: References: <1076904084.12300.189.camel@gaston> <1076968236.3648.42.camel@gaston> <1076969892.3649.66.camel@gaston> <1076972267.3649.81.camel@gaston> <1076974304.1046.102.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1076976245.3648.114.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:04:05 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Oh, there is no hurry with this. In fact, I'd rather take it slow than try > to make any big changes to something that _largely_ works but has problems > in some special cases. > > In fact, I'd be happiest if the first step would be to just rename the > interface and change the argument infrastructure, but actually keep all > the behaviour "obviously the same". Bugs and all, if it comes to that. So > I'd rather take several small steps (and let people use it for a while in > between) than try to do everything. And yes, 2.6.3 is not even a target. That's fine with me. Ben.