stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

[Dave Airlie]

On Jan 21, 2008 2:24 PM, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:16:10AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:15:54PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > > Ye-ess... Let's all go monolithic again.
> >
> > Going monolithic for the XF86 DDX and drivers written to it makes a lot
> > of sense as Dave and other have explained.  That doesn't mean all the
> > libraries, tools and other DDXes have to go in the same tree.  Starting
> > from day one I never got why people wanted to split the drivers out
> > because it leads to exactly the problems outlined in this thread.
>
> So what people are saying is, going modular was ok. But this whole
> driver SDK thing that we were so glad of existed at the time we went
> modular, that SDK should be tossed completely?
>

Nobody said we should make it impossible to build drivers out of tree
pr throw away the SDK, just that the default state for most drivers
should be in the tree. the kernel doesn't make it impossible to build
drivers out of tree at all, its just not a task you want to do for
long, however I do it for the DRM mostly and have no major problems..

Dave.