Commit 1ca137cd authored by Dave Airlie's avatar Dave Airlie

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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
parent 38fd2c6f
config DRM_RADEON_KMS config DRM_RADEON_KMS
bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default" bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default - NEW DRIVER"
depends on DRM_RADEON depends on DRM_RADEON
help help
Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default, Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default.
and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old
userspaces with this enabled will cause pain. This is a completely new driver. It's only part of the existing drm
for compatibility reasons. It requires an entirely different graphics
stack above it and works very differently from the old drm stack.
i.e. don't enable this unless you know what you are doing it may
cause issues or bugs compared to the previous userspace driver stack.
When kernel modesetting is enabled the IOCTL of radeon/drm When kernel modesetting is enabled the IOCTL of radeon/drm
driver are considered as invalid and an error message is printed driver are considered as invalid and an error message is printed
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