X.Org 7.3 final: Patch to ignore requests for loading obsolete drm module?

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:43:14PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 08:36 +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On 12/15/06, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch at suse.de> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:39:05PM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > There is a module blacklist in xf86Config.c for blacklisting the
> > > > modules from xorg.conf, perhaps you could somehow re-use or unify the
> > > > two lists?
> > >
> > > Hmm ... not sure how this is related to the config file. The fglrx
> > > driver uses explicitely xf86LoadSubModule() to check if the module can
> > > be loaded successfully.
> > 
> > I'm saying perhaps you could merge the blacklists, so we don't have to
> > maintain two lists of modules that we shouldn't load going forward?
> 
> There's a difference between modules that can no longer be loaded (such
> as drm) and modules that should not be loaded from the config file, but
> still can and need to be loaded on demand (such as GLcore).

And there's a difference between modules, which functionality has been
removed (speedo?) and modules, which functionality has been merged
into another module (dri/drm --> dri) or into the server (bitmap).

I finally created a bugreport. Not sure if anybody of the release
coordinators will see it though.

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9367

Best regards,
Stefan

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