[RFC] merged void driver

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Sat Nov 6 02:08:55 PDT 2010


On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 11:17:26AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On 6/11/10 24:45 , Luc Verhaegen wrote:
>>
>> I do not see the point still.
>>
>> This will catch no ABI issues at all as it uses nothing.
>
> for me, that's not the point of the merge. my motivation is to reduce  
> the time spent on some uncommonly used drivers. these drivers see little  
> updates past the ABI fixes but still have users. by merging them into  
> the server, the ABI ifdefs will go away, the code will be cleaner, time  
> spent updating them goes down. further down the road, the drivers could  
> likely share common code paths that are essentially copy/paste now  
> between the trees anyway. not sure that'll happen anytime soon.

How often do you intend to change the API in a way that even the void 
driver needs to be adjusted?

Luc Verhaegen.


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