On 5/3/06, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
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*.
Lack of a patch for a correct solution is no reason to put a bad solution into the kernel. GregKH has a lot to say about PCI class drivers and he has commented on this thread yet. DaveA and I have both attempt to do the correct fix both those attempts have fallen apart main for political reasons. -- Jon Smirl [email protected] - 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/
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