Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm2: intelfb/AGP unknown symbols

On Saturday 30 October 2004 19:34, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

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What's wrong with exporting the symbols back again?

if they are the right api to use; nothing. If they aren't (and what you
describe somehow suggests they aren't) it sounds better to make the
frontend usable for the intelfb driver instead...

I think the functions are the right API to use for clients within the
kernel.  The frontend is directed more for userspace clients. 

The old interface was to do an inter_module_get/put, but this is to
be deprecated. And all it does is to provide all the backend functions
to the requestor.

Either  a new interface is provided by agpgart, otherwise, not just intelfb
and i810fb will be affected, but also DRM (which currently uses
inter_module_get/put("drm_agp")).

If I remember correctly, the DRI people also have a new patch that removes
inter_module_get/put and they did it by calling the backend functions directly.

Tony