Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: in-kernel DRM tree move around.... | Date | Fri, 30 May 2008 09:58:53 -0700 |
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On Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:26 pm Dave Airlie wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:02 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:46 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> So I've been growing more annoyed with the current layout of the drm > >> tree in the kernel, > >> > >> a) it lives under char. > >> b) everything in one directory. > >> c) header files in one directory. > >> d) no header files exposed to userspace. > >> > >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=commitdi > >>ff;h=7df9a948d0f849466e3de259cccb49bc54cbad68 > >> > >> is a proposal to create drivers/gpu/drm, (I may move AGP in there as > >> well later). It also creates per-driver subdirs. > > > > Looks sane from the header export POV. Passes headers_check and doesn't > > add any more instances of CONFIG_xxx visible to userspace (I'm coming > > after those, soon). > > So assuming I fixed up the kbuild issues, any ideas on when it would > be a good plan to upstream this sorta major movement. > > Not many DRM patches don't come via me, and I can fix up the ones that > do before I merge them. > > Linus? any ideas on when you would prefer to take a tree like this? > start of rc1?
Yes please, as soon as the merge window opens. Now if we could just convince you to host a full kernel tree for DRM development, with a separate, symlinked BSD dir at the top level, we'd be all set. :)
Jesse
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