From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Braun Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:44:20 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] xserver_xorg-server: backport hotplug support In-Reply-To: <20120613182859.3217c88c@skate> References: <1339603696-2787-1-git-send-email-rbraun@sceen.net> <20120613182859.3217c88c@skate> Message-ID: <20120613164420.GA9653@mail.sceen.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:28:59PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Unless I'm wrong X11R7.7 has been released some time ago, and it > includes X server 1.12, at > http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/xserver/. So why would we bother > backporting 1.8 material to a 1.7 version? Upgrading the complete X.org > stack to X11R7.7 seems like a much more appropriate solution. Or maybe > I'm missing something obvious? Simple lack of time on my part, and I thought it may still be useful. > Moreover in general, we don't like to carry patches that aim at adding > features. We carry patches to fix build problems, or sometimes > architecture-specific fixes, but large new features should not be added > to packages using patches, otherwise Buildroot will become an > unmaintainable crap of patches. Agreed. -- Richard Braun