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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2010-02-05 19:02:24 +1000 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2010-02-08 15:05:58 +1000 |
| commit | 1ca137cdcd4e11af03dbe073d48a470b833a456d (patch) | |
| tree | 0893d3e3303ed66068b5a1457dea928fd5e2fee5 /drivers/gpu/drm | |
| parent | 38fd2c6ff526e6a59edfa8e08f6f0724646784c4 (diff) | |
drm/radeon/kms: change Kconfig text to reflect the new option.
Ingo pointed out that we really don't give the user enough warning to make
a decision here. So revise the Kconfig text with a better warning.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig index 5982321be4d..1c02d23f6fc 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig @@ -1,10 +1,14 @@ config DRM_RADEON_KMS - bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default" + bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default - NEW DRIVER" depends on DRM_RADEON help - Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default, - and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old - userspaces with this enabled will cause pain. + Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default. + + This is a completely new driver. It's only part of the existing drm + for compatibility reasons. It requires an entirely different graphics + stack above it and works very differently from the old drm stack. + i.e. don't enable this unless you know what you are doing it may + cause issues or bugs compared to the previous userspace driver stack. When kernel modesetting is enabled the IOCTL of radeon/drm driver are considered as invalid and an error message is printed |