stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

[Stephane Marchesin]

On 1/20/08, David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM>
> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:52:19 -0800
>
> > Dave Airlie wrote:
> > > 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...
> >
> > But then you'ld have to get all the driver maintainers to meet the
> > release cycles of the X server, instead of letting Intel release
> > quarterly, while ATI does developer snapshots for a year between
> > stable releases.
>
> Even so, I really like Dave's idea.
>
> It's just a mess currently.  Look at the Xserver SELINUX changes from
> the other week.  The GC private et al. bits broke several drivers
> including those I care about (mainly sparc ones).
>
> The input driver breakage that was measured in years would never have
> happened if all the drivers were in the tree and typing "make" would
> show everything that breaks from an API change.
>
> There is nothing that keeps drivers building when people make X server
> API changes, nothing.
>
> So what happens?  Shit breaks all the time, there are countless
> examples and it nearly happens on a weekly basis if not more often.
>
> It's a huge quality control issue.
>

So, the solution could be as simple as enforcing that people fix all
the drivers when they change the APIs. I don't see how modular vs
non-modular affects that, it's just about policy.

Stephane