[PATCH 19/19] drm/kms: don't export drm_mode_group_init_legacy_group

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:00:28AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:42:02AM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
> > If there's ever hardware that truly supports sub-device hotplugging,
> > we can support that by adding a DRM-ClientCap like 3D modes. But as I
> > understand, the current hardware is still a single piece of hardware
> > which just might get probed via different buses and thus is not an
> > atomic entity. So the device is still hotplugged as a whole, we just
> > don't get the events through a single path.
> 
> Yeah, if we ever want to allow hotplugging after driver setup that's
> massive work to do it right. Which is why I want to plug this hole here
> before someone sneaks in for real ;-)

David did say at the kernel summit that he's not interested at all in
hotplugging the components of a DRM system, and his statement appeared
to be very clear in that regard that it was never going to happen.

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