xf86UDelay was used - removal breaks drivers

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Fri Nov 6 17:45:48 PST 2009


On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 03:31:27PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> This commit:
> 
>    commit 9522ab9a98e98bc394703038e34b1c12aa39a179
>    Author: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
>    Date:   Mon Aug 31 16:12:29 2009 -0400
> 
>     Remove unused Delay.c
> 
> has broken a number of drivers that used the previously exported
> xf86UDelay function, including:
> 	xf86-video-ast
> 	xf86-video-chips
> 	xf86-video-glint
> 	xf86-video-neomagic
> 	xf86-video-rendition
> 
> Are updates going to be issued to all these drivers to use a different
> function, or should the removal be reverted?

Apart from the fact that i find changes like this horribly shortsighted 
and stupid, i wonder why tinderbox did not catch this.

Luc Verhaegen.


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