stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Sun Jan 20 23:23:08 PST 2008


From: Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:10:17 +0100

> 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.

That's simply not true.

It's a packaging issue, purely.

You can put the driver modules into seperate packages, and update them
independantly as well.

Nothing about having the driver sources in the Xserver tree prevents
distribution and driver folks from doing things like that.



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