[PATCH v2 12/26] drm/exynos: Split manager/display/subdrv

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 02:10:27 PST 2013


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 05:29:55PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > I believe this is a huge step backwards from current kernel design
> > standards, which prefer modularity.
> 
> But it makes things behave in the way that userspace expects, which is
> more important.

Why would userspace care about the modularity of kernel drivers? The
only thing that userspace should care about is whether there's a DRM
device or not. How the kernel makes that happen should be completely
irrelevant to userspace.

Thierry
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