On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Dave Airlie writes: > > > Paulus these look like your patches care to update them with the "new" > > method of doing stuff.. > > What are we going to do about the DRM CVS? Change it to the new way > and break everyone running 2.6.10 or earlier, or leave it at the old > way that will work for people with distro kernels, and have a > divergence between it and what's in the kernel?
(some distros like Fedora Core have modern kernels even for older releases) > Also, the compat_ioctl method is called without the BKL held, unlike > the ioctl method. What impact will that have? Do we need to take the > BKL in the compat_ioctl method? How much does DRM actually depend on the BKL? I would hope not too much... - 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/