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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2010-02-05 04:02:24 -0500
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2010-02-08 00:05:58 -0500
commit1ca137cdcd4e11af03dbe073d48a470b833a456d (patch)
tree0893d3e3303ed66068b5a1457dea928fd5e2fee5 /drivers/gpu
parent38fd2c6ff526e6a59edfa8e08f6f0724646784c4 (diff)
drm/radeon/kms: change Kconfig text to reflect the new option.
Ingo pointed out that we really don't give the user enough warning to make a decision here. So revise the Kconfig text with a better warning. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig
index 5982321be4d5..1c02d23f6fcc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
1config DRM_RADEON_KMS 1config DRM_RADEON_KMS
2 bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default" 2 bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default - NEW DRIVER"
3 depends on DRM_RADEON 3 depends on DRM_RADEON
4 help 4 help
5 Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default, 5 Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default.
6 and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old 6
7 userspaces with this enabled will cause pain. 7 This is a completely new driver. It's only part of the existing drm
8 for compatibility reasons. It requires an entirely different graphics
9 stack above it and works very differently from the old drm stack.
10 i.e. don't enable this unless you know what you are doing it may
11 cause issues or bugs compared to the previous userspace driver stack.
8 12
9 When kernel modesetting is enabled the IOCTL of radeon/drm 13 When kernel modesetting is enabled the IOCTL of radeon/drm
10 driver are considered as invalid and an error message is printed 14 driver are considered as invalid and an error message is printed