Re: [PATCH 0/2]: the patch set to weaken the dependency between ACPI video driver and i915 driver

[Andrew M. <ak...@li...>]

(cc dri-devel)

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:56:24 -0400 (EDT)
Len Brown <le...@ke...> wrote:

> applied
> 
> thanks,
> Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> 
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> > How about we just replace these with the following?
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> > index 3a22eb9..cf7e7c2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> > @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ config DRM_I915
> >  	select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
> >  	select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
> >  	select FB
> > +	select ACPI_VIDEO if ACPI
> >  	tristate "i915 driver"
> >  	help
> >  	  Choose this option if you have a system that has Intel 830M, 845G,

You applied this a week ago, but it isn't in mainline or linux-next.
We La described it as fixing a regression and David John said

: Can you forward this patch to Linus?  This regression breaks quite a
: few configs where ACPI Video is compiled as a module and i915 is built
: in.  This should have been in stable, but I guess it's too late now.

So...  wazzup?