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

[Dave Airlie]

On 12/17/06, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com> 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).
>

I suppose so, I just wondered, the idea of maintaining two blacklists
doesn't impress me, and it just seems like putting an fglrx specific
hack into the X server with no benefit to open source drivers is just
adding maintainance load going forward... I've punted the patch to the
7.2 RM (blocker on 6666) I don't think it needs to go into master as
fglrx won't work with master for lots of other reasons...

Dave.