On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:19:10 +0100 (IST) Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >> they need to grow a userpsace > >> cmpxchg as davem mentioned to go along with this, changing the drm now > >> isn't possible due to backwards compat.. > > > > For reference purposes, that position is not acceptable. We _never_ accept > > the > > "oh I can't change my proposed kernel interface because I already have > > userspace relying on it" argument. > > Yes it is, I thought breaking userspace API was the worst crime in kernel > history, (unless you are sysfs...) the userspace DRM has been around since > 2.2 days at least, so there are lots of legacy userspaces to break.. oh, sorry, I thought this cmpxchg stuff was newly-added. I guess something changed which has now made DRM available under arm allmodconfig. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
