On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 16:14 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:08:22 -0500, Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Under Fedora (and RHEL), they're there because we generally > > don't want to load them unless the user asked for them. > > Is there a specific reason why they are blocked?
One reaseon might be that the framebuffer devices can cause problems, e.g. with proprietary X drivers. > For example I'm looking at making changes to DRM such that DRM will > require the corresponding framebuffer driver to be loaded. Ignoring my suspicion that people won't like stuff getting forced down their throats like this (why would a DRM _require_ a framebuffer device?), does the hotplug blacklisting of the framebuffer devices matter at all if the DRM depends on them, i.e. won't they be loaded regardless when the DRM is loaded? -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/