On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:00:28AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:42:02AM +0100, David Herrmann wrote: > > If there's ever hardware that truly supports sub-device hotplugging, > > we can support that by adding a DRM-ClientCap like 3D modes. But as I > > understand, the current hardware is still a single piece of hardware > > which just might get probed via different buses and thus is not an > > atomic entity. So the device is still hotplugged as a whole, we just > > don't get the events through a single path. > > Yeah, if we ever want to allow hotplugging after driver setup that's > massive work to do it right. Which is why I want to plug this hole here > before someone sneaks in for real ;-) David did say at the kernel summit that he's not interested at all in hotplugging the components of a DRM system, and his statement appeared to be very clear in that regard that it was never going to happen. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: 5.8Mbps down 500kbps up. Estimation in database were 13.1 to 19Mbit for a good line, about 7.5+ for a bad. Estimate before purchase was "up to 13.2Mbit". _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
