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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:35:49 -0500
From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:58:51 -0500, Michel D?nzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
> > For example I'm looking at making changes to DRM such that DRM will
> > require the corresponding framebuffer driver to be loaded.
> 
> Ignoring my suspicion that people won't like stuff getting forced down
> their throats like this (why would a DRM _require_ a framebuffer
> device?), does the hotplug blacklisting of the framebuffer devices
> matter at all if the DRM depends on them, i.e. won't they be loaded
> regardless when the DRM is loaded?

There is no mechanism for getting a hotplug remove event into a driver
like DRM that doesn't attach to the PCI device.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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