stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

[Dave Airlie]

On Jan 20, 2008 12:53 PM, Remy Bosch <remybosch at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> Dave Airlie wrote:
> >> 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 :-)
> >>
> >
> > All current drivers are base on the XFree86 DDX, this what the xf86 means,
> >
>
> Or replace "xf86-" with "xorg". Would make more sense IMO. The
> driver/video prefixes are fine by me. They clarify their use.

No the DDX is and always has been known as the XFree86 DDX, it isn't
the X.org DDX, granted maybe someday we can start a new one, there is
probably little point in it..

Dave.
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> Remy
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