linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm fixes for 2.6.27-rc5

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Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:37:46 +1000
From:	"Dave Airlie" <airlied@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Dave Airlie" <airlied@...ux.ie>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm fixes for 2.6.27-rc5

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:15:26 +0000 (GMT) Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie> wrote:
>
>> commit 78538bf14995a136c2d9a22159ada49937359119
>> Author: Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
>> Date:   Tue Nov 11 17:56:16 2008 +1000
>>
>>     drm/radeon: map registers at load time
>>
>>     Now that the radeon driver has suspend/resume functions, it needs to map its
>>     registers at load time or it will likely crash if a suspend operation occurs
>>     before the driver has been initialized.
>>
>>     This patch moves the register mapping code from firstopen to load and makes
>>     the mapping into a _DRM_DRIVER one so that the core won't remove it at
>>     lastclose time.
>
> Does this make the below patch obsolete?

Yes please drop this, the correct fix is the one Jesse posted + a fix
on top of it I made in the same patch.

>>     Fixes (at least partially) kernel bz #11891.
>
> A little thing: there are (or used to be) people who troll commits for
> bugzilla reports to close off.  I've adopted the convention of
> indicating bugzilla reports via their full URL to make those efforts
> easier and to increase their accuracy.
>

Cool will try that in future.

Dave.
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