On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:45:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > This was exactly the reason I hesitated when you first suggested that I
> > did exactly that for agpgart, but I figured you knew best...
> It's worked pretty well for AGP, and it sure as hell cleaned stuff up.
no argument there..
> It was a suggested thing for DRI too a _loong_ time ago (before the DRM()
> thing), but at least back then it was shot down by whoever did DRM due to
> "user-level confusion".
right. the DRM() stuff annoyed me enough to start hacking on it. If I
get bored enough, I may recreate those changes locally, as I won't get
home before the weekend to mail them out.
> For what it's worth, I haven't seen any AGP confusion reports myself due
> to the move to "helper core modules".
they were few and far between, but I did field a few mails from folks
not loading the sub-driver, and then wondering why agpgart was failing.
that's backed off since then, so hopefully its a non-issue, but it's
something that's documented in the 2.5 changes doc I wrote[1] for any
newcomers when we get to 2.6 anyways.
Dave
[1] for those that havent seen it, http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt
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