[PATCH 00/15] xserver: cleanup and standardize startup options

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Thu Oct 28 07:30:35 PDT 2010


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Tiago Vignatti wrote:
>> Hi fellows,
>>
>> Our culture is turning "-option" the default syntax for arguments to be passed
>> to the server. This patch set tries to standardize the rest of arguments that
>> are not on such shape yet, removing some superfluous ones and also doing some
>> other janitor work around.
>>
>> I tried to be very conservative in this patchset, avoiding to do major
>> changes on behaviour.
>
> "Very conservative" is not changing any existing working configs into
> things that generate errors and fail to start the X server because
> their options are now invalid.   This series doesn't seem to qualify
> as "very conservative."

I agree, this is not something we can change.

Kristian


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