Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268553AbUIGTzF (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:55:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268504AbUIGTyk (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:54:40 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.104]:61826 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268590AbUIGTVr (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:21:47 -0400 Message-ID: <413E0A33.8090701@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:21:23 -0700 From: Ian Romanick User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: 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> In-Reply-To: <20040904102914.B13149@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1389 Lines: 31 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:51:24AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > >>>Then drm_core would always be bundled with the OS. >>> >>>Is there any real advantage to spliting core/library and creating three >>>interface compatibily problems? >> >>Yes we only have one binary interface, between the core and module, this >>interface is minimal, so AGP won't go in it... *ALL* the core does is deal >>with the addition/removal of modules, the idea being that the interface is >>very minor and new features won't change it... > > Umm, the Linux kernel isn't about minimizing interfaces. We don't link a > copy of scsi helpers into each scsi driver either, or libata into each sata > driver. Oh for crying out loud! I have posted a clear, concise explaination of why THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN at least 10 times. Unless you are willing to take over all user support issues that this *WILL* create from now until the end of time on all DRI supported platforms, GO AWAY! Your endless squaking is doing nothing be waste developer time. For the DRI project, that is a very valuable commodity. P.S.: Welcome to my spam filter. - 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/