From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kms in defconfig
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:36:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090428223624.61e7b255.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970904270156v54a6483fs20d5b31c97a1d482@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:56:27 +1000 Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
> > KMS is the sane design for graphics and i'd go as far as to consider
> > user-space mode setting an outright _bug_. It look a long time to
> > fix but now lets look forward and fix all the bugs in KMS, ASAP ...
>
> Its mainly for things like Andrews Vaio, people will not expect a new kernel
> to take out any current userspace, its a pain, but we assume distros + people
> who compile their own kernels will know what userspace exists on their
> machines and other will get the least surprise.
My Vaio thanks you.
What is the expected user-visible failure mode when someone enables KMS
on naive userspace? iow, how can bug report screeners recognise when this has
happened?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-29 5:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-27 8:21 kms in defconfig Dave Airlie
2009-04-27 8:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-27 8:56 ` Dave Airlie
2009-04-28 1:45 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-28 1:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-28 6:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-28 16:54 ` david
2009-04-28 17:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-28 17:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-28 17:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-28 19:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-28 21:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-28 17:23 ` david
2009-04-28 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-28 21:43 ` Florian Mickler
2009-04-28 21:50 ` david
2009-04-28 23:10 ` Florian Mickler
2009-04-28 23:29 ` david
2009-04-29 6:55 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2009-04-29 5:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-04-29 5:59 ` Dave Airlie
2009-04-27 15:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-28 1:54 ` Dave Airlie
2009-04-28 7:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-28 17:04 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-04-28 23:42 ` Dave Airlie
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