Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267686AbUIDLe1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:34:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269903AbUIDLbx (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:31:53 -0400 Received: from shockwave.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.160.9]:53431 "EHLO shockwave.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269893AbUIDLal (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:30:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4139A759.7040503@tungstengraphics.com> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:30:33 +0100 From: Keith Whitwell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Airlie , Jon Smirl , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design References: <20040904004424.93643.qmail@web14921.mail.yahoo.com> <20040904102914.B13149@infradead.org> <41398EBD.2040900@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904104834.B13362@infradead.org> <413997A7.9060406@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904112535.A13750@infradead.org> <4139995E.5030505@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904120352.B14037@infradead.org> <4139A480.4060306@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904122044.A14310@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040904122044.A14310@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1143 Lines: 28 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 12:18:24PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > >>You didn't stick with that long Christoph. We're not even past first base >>yet. Let's try again? >> >>So, I've got this file "patch-2.6.8.1.bz2". Lets suppose my older brother >>comes in & compiles it up for me & I'm now running 2.6.8.1 - it's implausible >>I know, but let's make it easier for you. Now, why isn't my i915 working? > > > Because the drm developer took a long time to submit the driver after > is was finished as they develop in a separate CVS tree instead of the kernel > tree. OK, fair enough. We've been spoilt in the past with "automatic" merges courtesy of some nice LKML types. But, now I've compiled 2.6.9 or whatever, it's still not working. My brother says he won't come in and do any more work on my computer, so you'll have to help me out from here... Keith - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/