Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760008AbXEJSiZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 14:38:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756420AbXEJSiT (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 14:38:19 -0400 Received: from nikam-dmz.ms.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.20.16]:42111 "EHLO nikam.ms.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753188AbXEJSiS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 14:38:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 20:38:16 +0200 From: Martin Mares To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Alexander van Heukelum , "Antonino A. Daplas" , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Matt Domsch , "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , James Bottomley , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander van Heukelum Subject: Re: x86 setup rewrite tree ready for flamage^W review Message-ID: References: <464158E9.2000207@zytor.com> <1178806235.18785.1189115515@webmail.messagingengine.com> <46435F8A.1040203@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46435F8A.1040203@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 20 Hello! > As far as I could tell, "scan" simply caused the nonstandard video > driver scan modules (unsafe probes) to be invoked. Since those modules > are no longer present, there appeared to be no need for them. The VGA > and VESA probes are safe. "scan" is still useful, because it is able to find BIOS video modes with non-standard numbers (they are still sometimes found on recent cards). Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares http://mj.ucw.cz/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth Entropy isn't what it used to be. - 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/