Re: ATI proprietary drivers installation issue on debian testing

> I suspect that if the BKL is not enabled now, it is not likely to be
> enabled in the future.  The BKL is something that pretty much
> everyone
> would like to go away.  In fact, while I see a configuration option
> for
> 2.6.38, 2.6.39 seems to have no such option, so I will assume that
> nothing is using it still and that it has been removed altogether
> from
> Linux.

OK. Thanks. I understand. What I don't understand is why some developers
don't try to get information on what they are developing with (ie ATI
with linux kernel) since, all of a sudden, latest ATI drivers use that
thing "everyone would like to go away".

> That's the problem with proprietary drivers.  When they break, nobody
> else can fix them.

Exactly. I think then that ATI will change its driver code for the
next releases if they still want to be supported 'proprietary' on linux.