stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sun Jan 20 05:08:50 PST 2008


On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:48:32 -0800, David Miller wrote:

> From: "Maarten Maathuis" <madman2003 at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:23:14 +0100
> 
> > What kind of drivers are you referring to (besides the non-standard
> > input drivers)?
> 
> Every driver that used GC privates broke two weeks ago.  This included
> sunffb and sunleo for which I posted patches which were applied.
> 
In the case of the sun drivers, the same breakage could have happened
with a monolithic tree, because changes wouldn't have been build-tested
on sparc anyway.

Cheers,
Julien



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