Comment # 1 on bug 853215 from Egbert Eich

This was mainly driven by Eric Anholt who is now working for Broadcom.
At the time he was proposing this on XDC 2013 in Portland, OR. I believe he was
still working for Intel. The big argument at the time was that it gives the
open source driver a speed advantage (as function calls between libraries don't
require an indirection).
This 'megadrivers' project got at least buy-in by AMD - and of course RH was
all for it.
For your 'entertainment' you can take a look at:
http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2013/XDC2013EricAnholtDRIMegadrivers/
and watch the video.

I do understand your frustration - especially since it countered the hard work
you've done to make things more modular.

I would like to close this with 'UPSTREAM'.