From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753816AbYE3Q7Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 12:59:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752504AbYE3Q7B (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 12:59:01 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-33.bluehost.com ([69.89.18.153]:33411 "HELO outbound-mail-33.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752314AbYE3Q7A (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 12:59:00 -0400 From: Jesse Barnes To: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: in-kernel DRM tree move around.... Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:58:53 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: "Dave Airlie" , "kernel list" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds References: <21d7e9970805281746k71b47ed2i79c06288d2dca022@mail.gmail.com> <1212058935.26088.11.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <21d7e9970805292326m1a238aa1id8b6733351ba15d3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970805292326m1a238aa1id8b6733351ba15d3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805300958.53361.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> X-Identified-User: {642:box128.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.27.49 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} DomainKey-Status: no signature Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:26 pm Dave Airlie wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:02 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:46 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> So I've been growing more annoyed with the current layout of the drm > >> tree in the kernel, > >> > >> a) it lives under char. > >> b) everything in one directory. > >> c) header files in one directory. > >> d) no header files exposed to userspace. > >> > >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=commitdi > >>ff;h=7df9a948d0f849466e3de259cccb49bc54cbad68 > >> > >> is a proposal to create drivers/gpu/drm, (I may move AGP in there as > >> well later). It also creates per-driver subdirs. > > > > Looks sane from the header export POV. Passes headers_check and doesn't > > add any more instances of CONFIG_xxx visible to userspace (I'm coming > > after those, soon). > > So assuming I fixed up the kbuild issues, any ideas on when it would > be a good plan to upstream this sorta major movement. > > Not many DRM patches don't come via me, and I can fix up the ones that > do before I merge them. > > Linus? any ideas on when you would prefer to take a tree like this? > start of rc1? Yes please, as soon as the merge window opens. Now if we could just convince you to host a full kernel tree for DRM development, with a separate, symlinked BSD dir at the top level, we'd be all set. :) Jesse