From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:23:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:23:34 -0400 Received: from cr626425-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com ([24.156.35.8]:50954 "EHLO spqr.damncats.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:23:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3B52CEAF.12281126@damncats.org> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:23:27 -0400 From: John Cavan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-pre6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4.1.0 DRM (was Re: Linux 2.4.6-ac3) In-Reply-To: <3B52438B.3CC6E1BC@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gareth Hughes wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Right but we cannot go around breaking support for older setups. A user > > updating their 2.4.x stable kernel and finding X11 no longer works simply isnt > > an acceptable situation for serious users. > > Agreed 100%. Why not do something similar to the aic7xxx driver? Place the old DRM in code in a pre-X4.1.0 subdirectory, with a warning that it will become obsolete as of 2.5, and bring in the new code. When you build the kernel, you can then choose which DRM version you want and everybody is happy. John