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It is a good thing. For the developers of that piece of code (AMD in this case).

However, it is introducing a second API for a very specific subset of hardware into a kernel that is being developed by not just AMD people. Dave Airlie is rightly saying that the second API and hence two different code structures makes the whole DRI infrastructure harder to maintain for everyone else.

And Dave's responsibility is to everyone else, not to AMD.




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