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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Gabriel C <crazy@frugalware.org>,
Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: modular intel-agp does not work on my box
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:14:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080223181414.GA24313@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080223000355.42219a89.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:03:55AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > You are right without EDAC built , agp modular does work fine. I'm on 2.6.25-rc2-00477-g1a4c6be right now.
> > > So it is an EDAC bug ?
> >
> > No, it's a failing of the pci driver model. It currently doesn't
> > allow more than one driver to be bound to a single PCI device.
> > For multi-function devices like bridges, this means we see problems
> > like the one you mention.
>
> Well that sounds pretty bad. What will distros do about this?
either
* ship both modular, and let the user decide which one he wants.
* build just one of them (typically agp)
* build them both, and let the above bug happen
* build agp into the kernel, and edac modular, breaking edac
for a minority.
> Is there something short-term-and-sleazy we can do to "fix" it?
not that I'm aware of. I think Greg has been working on a long-term fix.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-23 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-22 1:15 Gabriel C
2008-02-22 2:06 ` Dave Airlie
2008-02-22 2:26 ` Gabriel C
2008-02-22 3:27 ` Gabriel C
2008-02-22 4:19 ` Dave Jones
2008-02-23 8:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-23 18:14 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2008-02-23 19:30 ` Gabriel C
2008-02-23 19:45 ` Dave Jones
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