> The case in point for me is ATI's binary openGL accelerated drivers (fglrx) - > these used inter_module_get() to communicate with the agp gart module, for > obvious reasons - this AGP communication is essential to the functionality of > the driver. No, I don't like ATI only having closed-source drivers any more > than you, but given the extremely competetive nature of high end video card > sales, I can see why they want to do it this way. The point is that now, as > of 2.6.11-? or 2.6.12-? (not sure of the exact revision), the > inter_module_get() functions has been removed, and the functionality can only > be got (as far as I can tell) through use of the symbol_get() function. >
you might have done some research on what happened before ranting away like a crazy..... AGP dropped the drm_agp interface in favour of the DRM modules calling the AGP backend directly, a patch for the ATI drivers has been sailing around for ages I even wrote one myself for someone I think but I've lost it now ... all the AGP symbols needed are exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL. you might have noticed no-one else complaining around here which is usually a good sign that there is nothing worth complaining about :-) Dave. - 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/
