* Dave Airlie <airl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > * Dave Airlie <airl...@linux.ie> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> > If it now does not boot up if all its sub-options are enabled, even of
> >> > some
> >> > of those sub-options are new, does that count as a driver regression?
> >> > Sure it
> >> > does to me ...
> >>
> >> But it doesn't to anyone else under any reasonable meaning of the word
> >> regression.
> >
> > There are reactions in this thread that contradict your 'anyone else' point.
> >
> >> The config option states
> >> "Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default,
> >> ? ? ? ? ? and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old
> >> ? ? ? ? ? userspaces with this enabled will cause pain."
> >>
> >> Will cause pain sounds painful to me, I can make it seem much worse if
> >> you'd like.
> >
> > Except you are missing that the hang (and the first crash as well) happens
> > on
> > brand-new user-space just as much - not just on 'old userspaces'.
> >
> > The bugs i've triggered are independent of any user-space component - it
> > happens with a fresh distro just as much.
> >
> > As i suggested before, at least the text should be updated to include what
> > has been written about CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS in this thread before:
> >
> > ?> This is a completely new driver. ?It's only part of the existing drm for
> > ?> compatibility reasons. ?It requires an entirely different graphics stack
> > ?> above it and works very differently from the old drm stack.
> >
>
> Okay I've attached a patch with a revised Kconfig in it.
>
> Does this sound more like reality?
Looks perfect to me!
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>
Ingo
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