Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices

[Bill Nottingham]

Jon Smirl (jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx) said: 
> Is there a specific reason why they are blocked? 
> 
> For example I'm looking at making changes to DRM such that DRM will
> require the corresponding framebuffer driver to be loaded. If you back
> up further this is part of fixing X so that it won't mess with the
> hardware from user space. Mode setting would come from the framebuffer
> driver instead of the X 2D XAA driver.

If it's a hard module dep, I don't see how that would be a problem;
that would ignore the blacklist.

Bill
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