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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?


  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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