On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:16:05AM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > The patch you've been carrying for a while has a number of bogons,
> > like duplicating pci.ids inside the radeon driver for no good reason.
>
> Davej can you expand on this a bit, Linus was involved in the discussion
> on this way back when..
>
> thread at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106618281300001&r=2&w=2
>
> it's not just a re-creation of pci ids, the DRM drivers now know what
> cards they can work on, the only think I can think of perhaps is removing
> the strings and getting them from the pci.ids...
This is exactly my point. We don't need to reinvent the wheel here,
especially when we have a round one already that all the other drivers
are already using.
The only argument I've heard in favour of duplicating all that is
"DRI also runs on FreeBSD and Mach", which is totally bogus IMO.
If those projects haven't got it together to use a central database,
the Linux codebase shouldn't have to suffer any more than it currently
does with useless abstractions.
Dave
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