stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Sun Jan 20 16:02:41 PST 2008


From: "Stephane Marchesin" <marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:55:40 +0100

> So, the solution could be as simple as enforcing that people fix all
> the drivers when they change the APIs.

Nobody is willing to enforce this kind of policy upon people that's
why a big stick is necessary, so that other people cannot get work
done if the tree gets broken like that.

When I told the person responsible that they broke half of the
input driver builds they didn't think it was much of a big deal.

This kind of response upset me incredibly, so I made a huge stink
about this to a very senior Xorg developer, however that email was
completely ignored.

> I don't see how modular vs non-modular affects that, it's just about
> policy.

See above.



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