Re: your mail

Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-16T10:38:54Z

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:29:48AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 1) move the DRM to be a real PCI driver now - stop fb from working on same
> card
>
> 2) move the DRM to act like a real PCI driver when fb isn't loaded, when
> we merge we rip the code out..

3) stop making broken changes.

You do stop fb from beeing loaded after drm
and thus break perfectly working setups during stable series. And you
introduce indeterministic behaviour, and although I haven't looked at the
code because unlike every guideline tells you you didn't post it to do the
list, probably horribly broken code.

If you want pci_driver semantics - and apparently you do - move fbdev
and drm into a common driver or introduce a stub. This was discussed to
death and all kinds of list and Kernel Summit and now please follow what
was agreed on instead of introducing subtile hacks.