Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 18 December 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> This looks good, I've taken this and I've squashed >> the generic pieces of your RFC into this (i.e. >> I haven't modified the drivers, but just added the >> flag to allow the ioctls to be unlocked if the driver >> selects them). >> >> Do you think we should try and get this in soon, >> its seems like it shouldn't have any regressions >> unless we start switching drivers over. >> > > Well, since the patch should not change the behaviour > of the drivers, it probably doesn't matter to users > either way. However, it touches a number of places, > which can break patches that others are working on, > so maybe you should get it upstream at a point that > has the least impact to developer (possibly now). > > Doing it now at least makes it easier to test > moving drivers to unlocked operation. > > Arnd >
I'm very much for this as well. Note that the vmwgfx driver has another (workaround-like) approach to achieve unlocked driver ioctls, but it shouldn't be too hard to convert it. /Thomas > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
