On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 04:26:55AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > > 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? > > Because it probably wasn't noticed, feel free to resend it. > > I'm not sure why you need a version inside the via_drm.h but I'm > willing to accept that the via driver development process is messed up > enough to require it. No other driver has needed it.
How do graphics drivers tell whether they are building or running against a compatible drm driver? Is any driver attempting to handle both building and running against compatible drm versions in a graceful manner? This versioning code btw, has been sitting in drm master since 2006. Why is this not present in the kernel tree? Are you telling me that, at no time in between, there has been a point where both the kernel and some stable branch away from drm master have been in complete sync? > It was discussed on unichrome-lists, but not on dri-devel where normally > decisions like that would be done, but whatever, be paranoid, if you > really can't be useful then please don't bother being here at all. Eh? This patch here was i believe passed around before, according to mail-archive, it was originally sent to dri-devel on the 6th of january, and nobody cared. I have later seen this code included in the openSUSE kernel, without any communication with the SUSE X developers. And this code breaks the build of unichrome (because unichrome tries to be smart and checks, whereas openchrome just blindly continues), and where it regresses under both openchrome and unichrome. Because it was included in opensuse, and because i have seen what effect this code has, i do care about pointing out the issues with this code now. What is your reason to care all of a sudden? Luc Verhaegen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
