Dave Airlie wrote:

simple behaviour is different, no idea if anyone relies on it ..

modprobe radeon
modprobe radeonfb

will not longer work the same with the new system, be it stupid/broken
etc,, there is potential difference in a stable kernel series, what
happens if I build both into the kernel??

I would argue that the user is doing something wrong, and that behavior should explicitly not be supported. My take on this is that the different behavior we're implemented is fixing a bug. Certainly THAT should be okay in a stable release. :)





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