From: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jsimmons@infradead.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:58:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <400261C9.5000505@winischhofer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401111502380.1825@evo.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
>
>>The whole framebuffer stuff in 2.6 is ancient. (Look at the file dates.)
>
>
> Note that the fb stuff is ancient because it's basically not maintained as
> far as I'm concerned.
Erm, well, _I_ know. But I assume you meant this message mainly for the
public.
> I'm sorry, but this i show it is. The fbcon people have been changing
> interfaces faster than they have been fixing bugs in the code. Together
You tell me. I actually stopped adapting sisfb for a couple of months
during the 2.5 development cycle - I could not keep up with the speed of
substantial changes either.
> with the fact that most of the development seems to happen in outside
> trees, and nobody ever sends me fixes relative to the released tree, this
> makes for a pretty bad situation.
>
> I really think that development should happen in the regular tree, or at
> least be synched up in reasonable chunks THAT DO NOT BREAK everything.
>
> I realize that some fb developers seem to disagree with me, but the fact
> is, the way things are done now, fb will _always_ be broken. Most people
> for whom the standard kernel works will never test the fb development
> trees, so those trees will never get any amount of reasonable testing. As
> a result, they WILL be buggy, and synching with them WILL be painful as
> hell.
Isn't a large part of the fbcon/dev stuff in current 2.6 broken anyway?
Could it become worse by merging James' current changes? But I guess
this question - as well as the rest of your message - is for James to
answer.
If the lastest and greatest of the fbdev stuff isn't merged with 2.6.2,
I will revert the interface changes in sisfb and send a patch which
works with the then-current vanilla kernel.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-12 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-09 9:40 2.6.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 9:40 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 14:47 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-09 14:47 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-09 14:53 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Wojciech 'Sas' Cieciwa
2004-01-09 14:53 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Wojciech 'Sas' Cieciwa
2004-01-09 14:21 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-09 14:21 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-09 15:24 ` 2.6.1-mm1 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-01-09 15:24 ` John Cherry
2004-01-09 16:30 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-09 16:30 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-09 21:20 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 21:20 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 21:24 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-09 21:24 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-09 23:04 ` 2.6.1-mm1 - nforce2 timer patch sum up cheuche+lkml
2004-01-09 19:31 ` 2.6.1-mm1: sound/pci/cmipci.c compile error Adrian Bunk
2004-01-09 22:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 23:37 ` 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10 4:04 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-01-12 2:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-12 4:53 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 5:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-12 6:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-12 6:47 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 7:05 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-12 7:20 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 12:38 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 6:21 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 6:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-12 6:58 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 7:03 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 16:33 ` Dave Jones
2004-01-12 17:00 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 17:04 ` Dave Jones
2004-01-12 8:58 ` Thomas Winischhofer [this message]
2004-01-12 14:32 ` Moritz Muehlenhoff
2004-01-12 10:36 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-01-13 19:04 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-14 0:35 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-01-15 11:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-15 11:42 ` Thomas Winischhofer
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