[ Following up to myself ]
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Yes, XF86 may need to have some legacy module for backwards compatibility.
> But thinking that X should try to probe on its own is just silly.
This is also relevant to 2D, since more and more graphics cards really
shouldn't be accessed directly, but through the command queues. Which
means that you really want to have a kernel side driver for them anyway,
if only to be able to take advantage of interrupts etc. Unless you want to
busy-wait.
(And no, you're not going to do interrupt routing setup in user mode. You
really _need_ the kernel module for that, anyway.)
Linus
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