stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:33:16PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> 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.

So... You're certain that something like libpciaccess wouldn't have 
happened as such, if this part of the X was still a monolith? And would 
it have happened as it did if there was a working tinderbox?

I'm sure that we can all see what will happen to the SDK, with what you 
propose.

But guess what, you can forget about giving people easy access to new 
hardware support on a distribution that is currently shipping.

When people have been using vesa for months, for lack of a proper 
driver, or when people have just bought a new graphics card, their only 
option suddenly becomes to upgrade the whole X server stack.

Surely that can not be what we force people to do, every time.

Luc Verhaegen.
SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer.