From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:55:32 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] xserver_xorg-server: backport hotplug support In-Reply-To: <20120613182859.3217c88c@skate> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:28:59 +0200") References: <1339603696-2787-1-git-send-email-rbraun@sceen.net> <20120613182859.3217c88c@skate> Message-ID: <87r4tiwi7f.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Hi, Thomas> Unless I'm wrong X11R7.7 has been released some time ago, and Thomas> it includes X server 1.12, at Thomas> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/xserver/. So why would we Thomas> bother backporting 1.8 material to a 1.7 version? Upgrading the Thomas> complete X.org stack to X11R7.7 seems like a much more Thomas> appropriate solution. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious? Thomas> Moreover in general, we don't like to carry patches that aim at Thomas> adding features. We carry patches to fix build problems, or Thomas> sometimes architecture-specific fixes, but large new features Thomas> should not be added to packages using patches, otherwise Thomas> Buildroot will become an unmaintainable crap of patches. Agreed. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard