From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267416AbUHRSlt (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:41:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267472AbUHRSls (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:41:48 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:23168 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267416AbUHRSkb (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:40:31 -0400 Subject: Re: Oops modprobing i830 with 2.6.8.1 From: Alan Cox To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Rusty Russell , Dave Jones , David =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4rdeman?= , lkml - Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20040818192806.A1511@infradead.org> References: <20040817220816.GA14343@hardeman.nu> <20040817233732.GA8264@redhat.com> <20040818004339.A27701@infradead.org> <20040817234522.GA4170@redhat.com> <1092801681.27352.194.camel@bach> <20040818101540.A30983@infradead.org> <1092849766.26057.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040818192806.A1511@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1092850671.26051.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:37:51 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2004-08-18 at 19:28, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Well, aic7xxx also works without a pci version of the card present, even > if you compile your kernel with PCI.. I don't want to say we should change > the driver to not work anymore if there's not agp support, but that the > driver shouldn't try to overengineeredly do all this runtime probing unlike > everyone else. Yes but PCI isnt a module that doesn't load if you have no supported AGP device