stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Wed Jan 23 07:30:40 PST 2008


On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:19:09PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> Here is one fact I find disturbing.  The person who left several
> input drivers non-buildable for more than a year still checks
> code into the tree, and still defends his actions in one way
> or another every time it is brought up.
> 
> Nobody who has any power wants to reprimand him or others who
> do things like that.  It is proof that the mentality necessary
> to handle the modular tree properly is simply not there, and
> therefore your suggested "fix" is pure fantasy.

Fuck, I have a name.  If it's any consolation, I've been making very few
commits to the tree for the past couple of months, and every time I open
xorg@, I'm vastly less inclined to make more, and vastly more inclined
to trade debugging for time on the beach.

No regards,
Daniel
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