Re: Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access

Jon Smirl wrote:

On 5/2/06, Dave Airlie <[email protected]> wrote:

Jon stop being so dramatic, this is just like letting userspace map
the BARs, without ownership through sysfs, which is a good thing, you
can still map /dev/mem, look we have lots of ways to shoot ourselves
in the foot, if we *want* to.

So why don't we just build a VGA class driver or make null fbdev

I think your mail client is defective, you somehow managed to not attach the patch *again*.
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