On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 07:05:00AM -0500, David Airlie wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Sascha Hauer" <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Cc: "Inki Dae" <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx>, kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Sent: Thursday, 2 February, 2012 11:57:52 AM > > Subject: [PATCH] drm: cleanup device registration > > > > The non modesetting drm drivers currently use a handcrafted pci probe > > function. This requires the drm core to keep a list of registered > > devices > > for each driver. This series adds a probe function for the non > > modesetting > > drivers and removes the legacy probe code. The USB and platform > > drivers > > use the devices_list aswell which is unnecessary. This is also > > cleaned > > up in this series. > > No it can't work like this because we have conflicts between fb and drm drivers, so the DRM is required to do its own > probe if an fb driver for a device is already loaded. > > it can't use the PCI probe out of the box. I see. For example the i810 also has a framebuffer driver. Do you see a way to fix this except writing a kms driver for all legacy devices? Otherwise I would leave the pci part untouched and only keep the platform/USB pieces which I'm admittedly more interested in. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
