linux-kernel - Re: [AGPGART] intel_agp: use table for device probe

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:36:49 +0200
From:	Carlo Wood <carlo@...noe.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	eric@...olt.net, zhenyu.z.wang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [AGPGART] intel_agp: use table for device probe

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 05:33:55PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> intel-agp
> 
> Though by the looks of things, with the working kernel, you don't have
> it loaded (it's dependant upon the 'agpgart' module, which prints the
> "Detected" line that was missing).

You are wrong.

1)

I don't have any agpgart module at all, in any of the kernels that I compiled.

$ find /lib/modules -name 'agpgart.ko'
$ /lib/modules/2.6.22-rc5-master-188e1f81ba31af1b65a2f3611df4c670b092bbac-amd64 -name '*agp*.ko'
/lib/modules/2.6.22-rc5-master-188e1f81ba31af1b65a2f3611df4c670b092bbac-amd64/kernel/drivers/char/agp/sis-agp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.22-rc5-master-188e1f81ba31af1b65a2f3611df4c670b092bbac-amd64/kernel/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.22-rc5-master-188e1f81ba31af1b65a2f3611df4c670b092bbac-amd64/kernel/drivers/char/agp/via-agp.ko

2)

$ strings /lib/modules/2.6.22-rc5-master-188e1f81ba31af1b65a2f3611df4c670b092bbac-amd64/kernel/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.ko | grep 'agpgart: Detected an Intel'
<6>agpgart: Detected an Intel %s Chipset.

Hence, in the case that the kernel works, intel-agp is loaded
WITHOUT printing this Detected line - while when it doesn't work,
it is loaded while printing this line.

Perhaps my "solution" is to remove this module completely?
I don't seem to need it.

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@...noe.com>
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