Re: Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access

[Jon Smirl]

On 5/2/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
> > All of these have been proposed before.
>
> I think you forgot to attach the patch
>
> > In my opinion an 'enable'
> > attribute is the worst solution in the bunch.
>
> you again limit yourself to VGA. I don't.

Haven't we learned that mucking with hardware from user space without
having a device driver loaded is a very bad idea.  What is the
motivation for providing an API whose only purpose is to enable this
bad behavior?


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Jon Smirl
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