[Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization

2004-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We're looking at reorganizing the way DRM drivers are maintained. > Currently, the DRM kernel code lives deep in a subdirectory of the DRI > tree (which is a partial copy of the XFree86 tree). We plan to move it > "up" to its own module at the top lev

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization

2004-03-15 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We're looking at reorganizing the way DRM drivers are maintained. > > Currently, the DRM kernel code lives deep in a subdirectory of the > DRI > > tree (which is a partial copy of the XFree86 tree). W

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization

2004-03-15 Thread Ian Romanick
Andrew Morton wrote: Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We're looking at reorganizing the way DRM drivers are maintained. Currently, the DRM kernel code lives deep in a subdirectory of the DRI tree (which is a partial copy of the XFree86 tree). We plan to move it "up" to its own module at

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization

2004-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>When we do this move, we're open to the possibility of reorganizing the > >>file structure. What can we do to make it easier for kernel release > >>maintainers to merge changes into their trees? > > > > - Make sure that the files in the main kernel

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization

2004-03-15 Thread Jon Smirl
--- Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's part of why I'm asking. From talking to Linus in the past, I > know that merging in changes is a PITA due to our funky directory > structure. I'd like to make that easier. :) Part of the pain could be caused by the shared/linux split in the

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization

2004-03-16 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:31:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > I've had a 130k DRM patch in -mm since February 8th. Presumably it's out > of date. As far as I know nobody is pushing more recent patches upstream. The patch you've been carrying for a while has a number of bogons, like duplica

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization

2004-03-25 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi, > > The patch you've been carrying for a while has a number of bogons, > like duplicating pci.ids inside the radeon driver for no good reason. Davej can you expand on this a bit, Linus was involved in the discussion on this way back when.. thread at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10661828

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization

2004-03-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:16:05AM +, Dave Airlie wrote: > > The patch you've been carrying for a while has a number of bogons, > > like duplicating pci.ids inside the radeon driver for no good reason. > > Davej can you expand on this a bit, Linus was involved in the discussion > on this