stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Sun Jan 20 05:15:54 PST 2008


On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:39:06PM +1000, 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,
> 
> the only other DDX that has "drivers" is kdrive really and its drivers
> aren't separated in modular..
> 
> Granted I'd be happy to move all the open source drivers back into the
> server build and get rid of whole idea of a stable ABI between
> releases...

Ye-ess... Let's all go monolithic again.

Luc Verhaegen.
SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer.



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