Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759356AbZD1Hct (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:32:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753531AbZD1Hci (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:32:38 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:54561 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757410AbZD1Hci (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:32:38 -0400 Subject: Re: kms in defconfig From: Peter Zijlstra To: Dave Airlie Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , LKML In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970904271854q68242f08pb3f8e12f0ddb6506@mail.gmail.com> References: <21d7e9970904270121s1c58365bqc8933f8a3ffc5f1a@mail.gmail.com> <20090427083935.GA20941@elte.hu> <1240846843.7620.32.camel@twins> <21d7e9970904271854q68242f08pb3f8e12f0ddb6506@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:32:22 +0200 Message-Id: <1240903942.7620.68.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1547 Lines: 38 On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 11:54 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 10:39 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> * Dave Airlie wrote: > >> > >> > Hi guys, > >> > > >> > I just noticed CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS is enabled for x86-64. > >> > > >> > This should never be the case, as anyone who built defconfig > >> > kernels before, will now get KMS enabled when really they need to > >> > have done userspace upgrades. > >> > >> I've yet to see such a bugreport. > > > > Whenever I accidentally enable KMS I get a dead X (happens way more > > often that I'd like to), I blame this on the ubuntu Xorg packages, but > > can't be arsed to fix it myself -- hopefully the kinky koala will fix > > stuff, but who knows. > > Well you can't really blame anyone else for it, since you have to put > the code upstream > in the kernel before you can release drivers that use it for distros to package. > > So it would be impossible for any distro to have shipped kms drivers in a useful > fashion before KMS is actually in the kernel. Can't the driver detect KMS and use it when present? In that case they could just ship a KMS capable driver that works either way. Anyway, I'm sure it'll all sort itself out. -- 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/