Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267745AbUIDMak (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 08:30:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267774AbUIDMak (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 08:30:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:52120 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267745AbUIDMai (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 08:30:38 -0400 Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Dave Airlie Cc: Keith Whitwell , Dave Jones , Christoph Hellwig , Jon Smirl , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: 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> <20040904112930.GB2785@redhat.com> <4139A9F4.4040702@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904115442.GD2785@redhat.com> <4139B03A.6040706@tungstengraphics.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-jmmzGbuiCKmQBad9dTJP" Organization: Red Hat UK Message-Id: <1094301014.2801.10.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 14:30:15 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1253 Lines: 38 --=-jmmzGbuiCKmQBad9dTJP Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > If we make a library split that sits inside the kernel, their DRM can > stop working if someone busts the interface, hence the idea of having the > core reg/dereg in the kernel, and locking it down, then they can ship a > complete DRM source tree, and do as they wish as long as they interface > properly with the core... or they just ship their own matching core .c file as well.... Lets face it, for the core there are 2 things that are entirely at conflicts: small interface and core being useful. I rather go for the useful side myself. --=-jmmzGbuiCKmQBad9dTJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBObVWxULwo51rQBIRAlakAJ0W9iORWjMXd37WEtX2N1vlj/ox1wCfWzee auWnXy5USVKr+pmo7hQJ9mg= =vkGc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-jmmzGbuiCKmQBad9dTJP-- - 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/