On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:43:38PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Greg KH<g...@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:08:56AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> > >> Hi Linus, > >> > >> Please pull the 'drm-linus' branch from > >> ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git > >> drm-linus > >> > >> This is big. It contains the initial TTM memory manager + ATI radeon KMS > >> support. Currently the KMS code is part of the DRM radeon driver however > >> it is very clearly separated internally from the old codepaths. We've > >> elected to keep the radeon KMS Kconfig build/enable under staging for now > >> since we may have some ABI tweaks to sort out in this release cycle, > >> however the code is all in the drm. I don't think this enables crap > >> tainting, but at least no-one will find kms by accident. > > > > No, the module loader looks for stuff in drivers/staging/ to cause a > > "taint". > > > > But why not just keep the Kconfig stuff in your own directory, and > > depend on CONFIG_STAGING if you want to not have it show up for "normal" > > users? It seems odd to put anything in drivers/staging/Kconfig for > > something that is not in drivers/staging. > > > > I'm guessing this Kconfig change was not in linux-next? Or had it been > > there and I just missed it somehow? > > > > No since I was on holidays until the just before the merge window > opened, the patches > did get posted to lkml but missed your cc. > > Well we'd like to make sure people go via the staging menus to get at > the kconfig option > for now, granted it probably doesn't matter whether it goes in staging > menus or in drm depends > on CONFIG_STAGING. Up to you I can post a patch after this merge to > move it to drm.
Ok, I'll defer to your judgement here. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
