Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965097AbWECGCq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 02:02:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965098AbWECGCq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 02:02:46 -0400 Received: from fmr19.intel.com ([134.134.136.18]:51863 "EHLO orsfmr004.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965097AbWECGCp (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 02:02:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4458475F.3010203@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 08:02:07 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Smirl CC: Dave Airlie , greg@kroah.com, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, airlied@linux.ie, pjones@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access References: <1146300385.3125.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <9e4733910605020938h6a9829c0vc70dac326c0cdf46@mail.gmail.com> <44578C92.1070403@linux.intel.com> <9e4733910605020959k7aad853dn87d73348cbcf42cd@mail.gmail.com> <44579028.1020201@linux.intel.com> <9e4733910605021013h17b72453v3716f68a2cebdee1@mail.gmail.com> <1146594457.32045.91.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <9e4733910605021200y6333a67sd2ff685f666cc6f9@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e9970605021440s6cdc3895t57617e5fad6c5050@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910605021452r3aec1035pa475b701b2c3563c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910605021452r3aec1035pa475b701b2c3563c@mail.gmail.com> 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: 725 Lines: 15 Jon Smirl wrote: > On 5/2/06, Dave Airlie wrote: >> Jon stop being so dramatic, this is just like letting userspace map >> the BARs, without ownership through sysfs, which is a good thing, you >> can still map /dev/mem, look we have lots of ways to shoot ourselves >> in the foot, if we *want* to. > > So why don't we just build a VGA class driver or make null fbdev I think your mail client is defective, you somehow managed to not attach the patch *again*. - 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/