stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

Bernardo Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Sat Jan 19 18:01:33 PST 2008


Hello,

doesn't this useless piece of information bother you?

It's not even *true* for all the drivers added lately,
which got this xf86- prefix just out of inertia :-)

My proposal is:

 - create driver/video/ and move all video drivers there,
   with the name being simply "ati", "nv", etc.

 - same for driver/input/, etc.

 - create symlinks with the old names to ease the transition

 - update git_xorg.sh and the other modular scripts to
   use the new name.

How does it sound?

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