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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Federico Di Gregorio <fog@initd.org>
Cc: faith@valinux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel 830m backport (2.5 -> 2.4)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:30:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020823153057.A18848@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1030109549.1120.86.camel@momo>; from fog@initd.org on Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 03:32:28PM +0200

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 03:32:28PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> hi,
> 
> this is my first try at a kernel patch, i hope i am doing everything
> right; if not, please just tell me. (i sent this patch to both the drm
> maintainer and the linux-kernel ML. should i send 2.4 patches directly
> to marcelo? mm..) 
> 
> anyway, this is just a backport of the 2.5 DRM driver for Intel 830M to
> the 2.4 series. It is against 2.4.19 but, consisting only of added files
> it should work clean on later kernels (tested on 2.4.20pre). The patch
> is quite big (67252 bytes) and can be downloaded from:

Please don't do this.  The 2.5 drm code is a piece of shit and even crappier
than the one in 2.4.

Alan, is there any chance you could send marcelo the -ac drm code?


  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-23 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-23 13:32 [PATCH] Intel 830m backport (2.5 -> 2.4) Federico Di Gregorio
2002-08-23 14:30 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-08-23 15:23   ` Alan Cox
2002-08-23 16:01     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-23 16:08     ` Rik van Riel

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