Re: New proposed DRM interface design

Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04T09:29:29Z

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:51:24AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > Then drm_core would always be bundled with the OS.
> >
> > Is there any real advantage to spliting core/library and creating three
> > interface compatibily problems?
>
> Yes we only have one binary interface, between the core and module, this
> interface is minimal, so AGP won't go in it... *ALL* the core does is deal
> with the addition/removal of modules, the idea being that the interface is
> very minor and new features won't change it...

Umm, the Linux kernel isn't about minimizing interfaces. We don't link a
copy of scsi helpers into each scsi driver either, or libata into each sata
driver.