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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Is it really just nouveau? I've not looked, but I bet the intel driver and 
> the radeon driver have _exactly_ the same "oh, I'm the wrong version, I 
> will now kill myself" behavior.

Ok, I cloned the drm tree just to see, and it does seem like it's just 
nouveau that does that whole thing. At least from a quick grep of 
drmGetVersion() calls.

> I certainly seem to remember some similar issues with the intel driver 
> long long ago.

.. but Jesse tells me that it's using feature masks etc, so maybe my 
recollection is about unrelated issues.

So yeah, nouveau seems to "special". Although somebody already said that 
if I'd have had a radeon, I'd have seen similar issues. Maybe the radeon 
driver just doesn't check the version number, and fails in different ways.

		Linus