stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Jan 23 17:10:02 PST 2008


From: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:26:24 +1100

> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 06:04:44AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > And in this particular case
> > drivers (sparc or not) have to choose between the old and new
> > way of doing GC privates and such.
> 
> Again, this is called an API breakage.

The context of my comment is that people state that it's so easy to
work independantly in the per-driver GIT trees to do work and that
simply isn't true as evidenced by these API changes.



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