On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Gareth Hughes wrote:
> > Gareth, the current driver is broken. If someone wants to use video
> > capture they _need_ both GATOS 2d driver and GATOS drm driver, period.
> >
> > What's so wrong about upgrading ?
>
> Guaranteed, someone will get a mismatch -- your changes may go back
> into the stock kernel, breaking DRI CVS or whatever, who knows. Forcing
> everyone to upgrade their kernel, 2D and 3D drivers to the right magic
> revision is a recipe for disaster, one that the kernel people have
> already kicked our arses over (rightly so).
>
> > Also, I can make drm driver work nice with older 2d drivers - as soon as
> > someone will show me a way to tell the version of the 2d driver that is
> > accessing the drm driver.
>
> Sounds like it'll need a 2D driver upgrade :-)
>
So what are you proposing ? Not to fix it ? We have a system where a
driver is split in three components all of which have to agree on the
hardware state. There is just so much you can do for backward
compatibility. You can do less if you can't find one component version
from another one.
As for Linus not wanting to accept it, 2.4 has dropped most nat filters
except for ftp and most of them aren't back yet. So I don't buy this
argument.
Vladimir Dergachev
> -- Gareth
>
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