[RFC][PATCH 3/6] xfree86: delete devices probe code (-probe and -probeonly options)

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Tue Jul 14 10:54:19 PDT 2009


> From: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:06:40 +0300
> 
> In a near future KMS drivers will do all device's configuration inside the
> kernel. For those that don't want/need/can't do the mode setting inside the
> kernel, then we need to design a tool _external_ from the server to do such
> work. But here, inside a windowing system, it's not the place to probe for
> devices. Goodbye -probe and -probeonly.

Isn't this a little bit premature?  It's a bit like removing support
for multi-card because it will be done by KMS before any KMS drivers
actually exist ;).


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