linux-kernel - Re: kms in defconfig

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Message-Id: <1240846843.7620.32.camel@twins>
Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:40:43 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kms in defconfig

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 10:39 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I just noticed CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS is enabled for x86-64.
> > 
> > This should never be the case, as anyone who built defconfig 
> > kernels before, will now get KMS enabled when really they need to 
> > have done userspace upgrades.
> 
> I've yet to see such a bugreport.

Whenever I accidentally enable KMS I get a dead X (happens way more
often that I'd like to), I blame this on the ubuntu Xorg packages, but
can't be arsed to fix it myself -- hopefully the kinky koala will fix
stuff, but who knows.
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