Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964930AbWEBQvl (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 12:51:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964931AbWEBQvk (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 12:51:40 -0400 Received: from detroit.securenet-server.net ([209.51.153.26]:24016 "EHLO detroit.securenet-server.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964930AbWEBQvk (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 12:51:40 -0400 From: Jesse Barnes To: Greg KH Subject: Re: Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 09:51:27 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Dave Airlie , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pjones@redhat.com References: <1146300385.3125.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200605021014.45684.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20060502162136.GA4668@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060502162136.GA4668@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605020951.28160.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - detroit.securenet-server.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - virtuousgeek.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 19 > > But I hope that when X uses this, it only enables & disables VGA > > devices it's actually using. In the past, it seems like X has > > blindly disabled *all* VGA devices in the system, even though > > they might be in use by another X server. I'm sure that's all > > well-understood and cleaned up now; just wanted to make sure > > this nightmare didn't recur. > > Hopefully with the recent PCI changes to X, this will not happen. If > it does, that's a big bug in X :) On some machines it still has no alternative, since the kernel doesn't have a VGA arbiter of any kind. Yes this sucks. Jesse - 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/