stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Wed Jan 23 07:19:49 PST 2008


On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:53:21AM +0100, Remy Bosch wrote:
> Dave Airlie wrote:
> >> doesn't this useless piece of information bother you?
> >>
> >> It's not even *true* for all the drivers added lately,
> >> which got this xf86- prefix just out of inertia :-)
> >
> > All current drivers are base on the XFree86 DDX, this what the xf86 means,
> 
> Or replace "xf86-" with "xorg". Would make more sense IMO. The
> driver/video prefixes are fine by me. They clarify their use.

This doesn't make any sense unless you also rename hw/xfree86, and
xf86*.[ch].

Cheers,
Daniel
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