Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Gareth Hughes wrote: > > > > Gareth, the current driver is broken. If someone wants to use video > > > capture they _need_ both GATOS 2d driver and GATOS drm driver, period. > > > > > > What's so wrong about upgrading ? > > > > Guaranteed, someone will get a mismatch -- your changes may go back > > into the stock kernel, breaking DRI CVS or whatever, who knows. Forcing > > everyone to upgrade their kernel, 2D and 3D drivers to the right magic > > revision is a recipe for disaster, one that the kernel people have > > already kicked our arses over (rightly so). > > > > > Also, I can make drm driver work nice with older 2d drivers - as soon as > > > someone will show me a way to tell the version of the 2d driver that is > > > accessing the drm driver. > > > > Sounds like it'll need a 2D driver upgrade :-) > > > > So what are you proposing ? Not to fix it ? We have a system where a > driver is split in three components all of which have to agree on the > hardware state. There is just so much you can do for backward > compatibility. You can do less if you can't find one component version > from another one.
Do it the old way by default, and if you receive some new ioctl, do it the new way. > As for Linus not wanting to accept it, 2.4 has dropped most nat filters > except for ftp and most of them aren't back yet. So I don't buy this > argument. Trust us. It's the right thing to do, whether Linus or anybody else says so. Keith _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
