[RFC][PATCH 3/6] xfree86: delete devices probe code (-probe and -probeonly options)

[Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki)]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:54:19PM +0200, ext Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>
> > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:06:40 +0300
> > 
> > In a near future KMS drivers will do all device's configuration inside the
> > kernel. For those that don't want/need/can't do the mode setting inside the
> > kernel, then we need to design a tool _external_ from the server to do such
> > work. But here, inside a windowing system, it's not the place to probe for
> > devices. Goodbye -probe and -probeonly.
> 
> Isn't this a little bit premature?  It's a bit like removing support
> for multi-card because it will be done by KMS before any KMS drivers
> actually exist ;).

Err. FYI multi-card support is broken since 7.4 release.

            Tiago