Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:17:20 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.29-rc3-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.28 |
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > > The problem is that if you have a configuration under 2.6.28 without > CONFIG_FB and just call make oldconfig, or even make config and don't > know that you loose the DRM. And I was using make oldconfig (there is a > graphical config?? ;-))
Sure. It's inconvenient, no question about that. I asked the i915 people to look into not requiring CONFIG_FB, and I hope they will, but my point is that I don't think we can consider "small one-time inconvenience" to be a "regression".
> So maybe there should be a select FB or so under the CONFIG_DRM option > (not that I actually can program Kconfig).
CONFIG_FB is one of the things that _could_ be selected for (it doesn't depend on anything else that I know about), so just changing the "depends on FB" into a "select FB" may get rid of the issue - but it would not actually fix your problem, since your CONFIG_DRM_I915 has already been set to 'n' by now - so you'd _still_ have to enable it by hand again.
So the upside is not very big - people who have custom configs are the often the same people who try -rc1's, so they've already hit this.
Linus
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