[PATCH] Purge macros NEED_EVENTS and NEED_REPLIES

[Michel Dänzer]

On Don, 2010-07-01 at 06:41 -0300, Fernando Carrijo wrote: 
> Thus spake Alan Coopersmith, when questioned about NEED_EVENTS and NEED_REPLIES:
> 
>   "Long long ago,  X was built on  computers with 4Mb RAM. The  amount of memory
>    used for the parse tables was large and if you didn't need it, then you saved
>    time & memory  #ifdef'ing out the bits you didn't  need. Plus, some compilers
>    sucked, life was hard, and the bits  had to be rolled uphill in the snow both
>    ways. In other  words, ancient history that can be  deleted now unless you're
>    really building a 15+ year old release."
> 
> This reviewer-friendly series of patches aims to purge both macros.

Which module(s) used to check for these defines, and when were those
checks removed? At least the xf86-*-vm* drivers can still be built and
used with pretty old releases of X.


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