* Jerome Glisse <gli...@freedesktop.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:19:35PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:56:03PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > > Do you see my argument why any user who is hit by this would categorize
> > > > this as a kernel regression in an existing driver?
> > >
> > > No. If a user changes configuration and gets a hang, that's a bug but not
> > > a
> > > regression.
> >
> > Only if it's some brand-new driver or a brand-new kernel feature for which
> > no-one can have any prior expectations of stability. Especially if it's
> > added
> > in the merge window when many new drivers are added.
> >
> > But isnt it a regression to a user if it's shipped in -rc7 appearing as a
> > new
> > sub-option of an existing driver?
> >
> > I'd wager that most main-street Linux users would consider that a
> > regression.
> >
> > As i see it is that you are trying to have it both ways: claim it's a new
> > driver when it comes to handling regressions, but also try to have the
> > benefits (and adoption flux) of an old driver when it comes to facing it to
> > users.
>
> We have been treating KMS regression as regression, [...]
Great!
> [...] i fixed numerous regressions since it was first merged as an staging
> driver, and i keep doing so, i try to be as much reactive as i can. I am
> sorry you have a bad experience about it. I just wanted to add that we
> planed to move KMS out of staging in 2.6.33 long time ago and yes maybe we
> should have done it earlier, but no matter when we do the change you will
> still face this bug until we fix it.
I dont think you'll ever see my complain about a bug. I dont, and i introduce
far too many of them to have any moral basis for complaint in any case ;-)
I only questioned the validity of this initial reaction by Dave Arlie:
| Its not enabled by default so reverting this doesn't make much sense.
|
| We can just treat this as a normal driver bugreport.
> So on fixing the issue front, one question do you also enable radeonfb ? if
> so then its likely the root issue of this bug, i think kconfig should
> forbid having both radeon kms + radeonfb but i am not sure how allyesconfig
> behave in respect of such constraint.
Please see the bugreprt i made in this thread, under the following subject:
hung bootup with "drm/radeon/kms: move radeon KMS on/off switch out of
staging."
It has all that info and more. (i've bounced it to you privately as well)
Ingo
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