linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm request 3

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003041721290.3768@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:22:30 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Luc Verhaegen <libv@...net.be>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3



On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> 
> In an ideal world, you shouldn't be forced to update anything except 
> some/all of the driver bits.
> 
> But the fact that libdrm is lumped together as it is, and that mesa is a 
> monolith, forces you to update a more significant portion of your 
> system. You have to resort to some serious manual labour to get around 
> that atm.

Ok, that probably explains my messy screen and failure with the above 
simplistic approach - I didn't do the whole mesa thing, I just did the 
drivers.

			Linus
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