On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 05:29:55PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] >> > I believe this is a huge step backwards from current kernel design >> > standards, which prefer modularity. >> >> But it makes things behave in the way that userspace expects, which is >> more important. > > Why would userspace care about the modularity of kernel drivers? The > only thing that userspace should care about is whether there's a DRM > device or not. How the kernel makes that happen should be completely > irrelevant to userspace. What I was referring to was userspace not expecting parts of the drm (crtcs/encoders/connectors) driver to show up incrementally. You can avoid that, but it is more of a hassle currently (ie. most drivers that need to do this, including a few that I've written, end up needing some form of stuff-devices-in-global-variables-that-main-driver-checks-for). BR, -R > Thierry _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
