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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] DRM 4.0 support for kernel 2.4.17 
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:54:17 +0100, 
Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:48:36AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
>> needs the separate copy of drmlib.  I will not maintain that crud into
>> kbuild 2.5.
>
>ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hch/patches/v2.4/2.4.17/linux-2.4.17-drm40-1.patch.bz2
>
>Is a version that is (build-) tested and very similar to your versions, based
>on my 2.4.0-test Makefile.
>
>> Some of the code in $(drmlib-4.0-objs) will need EXPORT_SYMBOLS to work
>> when drm 4.0 drivers are compiled as modules.
>
>I don't consider that a good use of drm 4.0.  If someone wants to fix it
>anyway he/she should do it.  I don't think this compatiblity code needs
>so much attention.

Looks good to me.  The first person who wants drm-4.0 support as a
module has some work to do.  ia64 defconfig has drm-4.0 tdfx built in,
no problem there.

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