Hey,
On 2023-07-24 12:28, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
On 7/19/23 18:41, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
xe is a new driver for intel GPU's that shares the sound related code with i915.
Don't allow it to be modprobed though; the module is not upstream yet and we should exclusively use the EPROBE_DEFER mechanism.
I can't figure out what this comment means.
how would the -EPROBE_DEFER mechanism help if the driver that will trigger a new probe is not upstream?
Not following at all what you intended to explain.
What I mean is that there is code inside the current code that does request_module("i915"), the comment meant I didn't try to add any logic for request_module("xe"), as the driver is not merged yet.
Additionally I am removing the request_module logic, but this comment was written when I first tried the simple solution of request_module("xe").
Turns out telepathy is hard, and using -EPROBE_DEFER is much simpler. :-)
Cheers, ~Maarten