Modularization mailing list and initial strawman proposal

[Jonas Gall]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:00:54 +1100, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> Because 'drivers' is a really bad name.
> 
> Drivers for what?
video, print, input, multimedia and every other loadable driver module.

> Cars?  ALSA?  KDrive?  libX11's overengineered
> localisation structure?
Stop the trolling. You and everyone else known what's in that CVS module.

> > >      * Vendors have expressed a strong desire to be able to ship updates
> > >        to individual drivers as bugs are fixed, so they have been split
> > >        out into their own module.
> > >      * The drivers consist of both input and output (i.e., video)
> > >        drivers.
> >
> > And print drivers as the Xprint DDXs should be turned into loadable
> > modules (in the long term the Xprt server is going away then[1],
> > replaced by a Xorg server which can handle both video and print modules
> > similar to what the Xserver in HP/UX can do today).
> 
> Yes, but no code has yet been shown to this end, that I know of.  It has
> also shown to be a very difficult problem -- looking at any application
> that uses Xprint, the fundamental differences between display and print
> drivers are exposed to the application. 
A working version has been demonstrated in oct 04 and the patches for
that were made available in one of the Xprint list.

> I don't see how this could cleanly work in the server.
Works perfectly.
Next question.

Jonas
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