<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 14:54 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>understand so much the reason for that). So "remove ISA bus code, as support</TT> <TT>is removed from xserver" is not the argument. </TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> Agreed <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>On the other hand, we don't have a policy defined to deprecate a given</TT> <TT>functionality of a driver after a given time or versions. So we could go now</TT> <TT>and deprecate ISA from there easily.</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> The ISA bus support was removed from server end of 2008. I thought people would have complained by now if their computer with ISA bus would not work any more. Some of them must have upgraded to server 1.6. But it's just a guessing game. The motivation for this patch is simply for clean-up, not big deal, but I have noticed functional maintenance work in this area. Removing dead code can save maintenance, if we can be sure it's really dead. It would be useful to have an up-to-date PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XORG, [xorg-server >= ????] statement in each driver. It would tell developers how far back to check for compatibility. Thanks </BODY> </HTML>