From: Dave Airlie <[email protected]> Ingo pointed out that we really don't give the user enough warning to make a decision here. So revise the Kconfig text with a better warning.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <[email protected]> drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++---- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-dvb.git?a=commitdiff;h=1ca137cdcd4e11af03dbe073d48a470b833a456d diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig index 5982321..1c02d23 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig @@ -1,10 +1,14 @@ config DRM_RADEON_KMS - bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default" + bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default - NEW DRIVER" depends on DRM_RADEON help - 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. + Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default. + + 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. + i.e. don't enable this unless you know what you are doing it may + cause issues or bugs compared to the previous userspace driver stack. When kernel modesetting is enabled the IOCTL of radeon/drm driver are considered as invalid and an error message is printed _______________________________________________ linuxtv-commits mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxtv-commits
