On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:58:01AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > These patches break both free drivers out there. They not only break the
> > API, they also require some of these ioctls to be used correctly for
> > correct initialisation. There seems to be no attempt at working with
> > these two drivers to fix this specific issue.
> 
> I'm looking for the API break but not really seeing it, I can see
> additions to the API.
> 
> So it would be good if you could take a minute and write some inline
> comments in a reply
> to the patch, so we can track it.
> 
> The only one I'd worry about is the extending of drm_via_init_t with
> two new parameters.
> 
> Granted if these ioctls are to be used by *chrome to workaround this
> bug as well, then
> it would be good if patches to those driver were made available so as
> to get correct
> operation.
> 
> Otherwise these patches fail for the usual reasons, they actively
> revert a change made upstream
> (removing linux/types.h and reverting all that), also this should be
> one patch, we don't need .c and .h
> separate all the time, its also impossible to bisect across that sort of 
> thing.
> 
> Dave.

As a first answer, without going in depth, as i just returned from my
thursday constitutional.

Do you have an explanation as to why this commit never made it to the 
kernel?

> > No version was bumped, because i believe these are against the kernel
> > copy of the drm, because for some reason the kernel copy never saw
> > commit 659e9a091d3.

And why did you suddenly start to care, while you pretty much ignored 
this dead before? Would that be for technical reasons?

Luc Verhaegen.

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