From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753604Ab0CCLMf (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:12:35 -0500 Received: from mbox2.netikka.net ([213.250.81.203]:49308 "EHLO mbox2.netikka.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750768Ab0CCLMd (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:12:33 -0500 Message-ID: <4B8E441F.5090701@mandriva.org> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:12:31 +0200 From: Thomas Backlund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Mandriva/3.0.3-1mdv2010.1 (2010.1) Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Airlie CC: Linus Torvalds , dri-devel@lists.sf.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 2 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 03.03.2010 01:02, Dave Airlie skrev: >>> x86 after PPC (I think I just validated Ingo). >> >> Why is VGA_SWITCHEROO enabled by default? > > because it does nothing on anything except the laptops in question and on > those it does nothing except add a control file in debugfs? > > So how am I supposed to indicate to distro vendors that something should > be turned on? If you think that distro kernel maintainers really > understand every config option that goes past, I've got a bridge. > Yep. If the help-text for a new config option is well written, a kernel maintainer will have no problem deciding what to do. (the help text for the config in question is wery well written, thanks to whoever wrote that) And this specific option/feature is already requested by endusers, so no maintainer will be able to "miss it" :-) -- Thomas