[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] nouveau: rename var name for nouveau_vieux to avoid conflict with nouveau

Ilia Mirkin imirkin at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jul 1 07:41:31 PDT 2015


On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 July 2015 at 08:49, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> We want to require different versions for nouveau and nouveau_vieux.
>> autoconf will only check for NOUVEAU once if both drivers are enabled,
>> meaning both version checks don't get executed. Rename the nouveau_vieux
>> one to NVVIEUX to avoid the issue.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
> Or we can just nuke LIBDRM_NVVIEUX_REQUIRED - I've always wondered why
> we need it :-)
>
> Either way is fine with me,
> Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>

I dislike forcing people using ancient hardware to upgrade some
component just because an unrelated driver wants something newer. So I
think the vieux/nouveau separation makes sense.

  -ilia


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