From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] fbdev updates. Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:41:07 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20020705204107.H27920@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17QYx9-0000Lb-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 12:41:16 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from jsimmons@transvirtual.com on Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:32:57PM -0700 Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Simmons Cc: Ani Joshi , Linux Fbdev development list On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:32:57PM -0700, James Simmons wrote: > It is and has started to got into the mainline kernel. The thing was I was > bending over backwards to not break peoples drivers. If it's something small, then driver people don't mind having their drivers fixed. However, if its something large, just break them and let the driver people fix up the pieces (assuming you've got adequate documentation either in code or elsewhere for people to see both the reasons for the breakage, the direction you're heading in, and an example driver to follow.) Chances are that they'll know their driver better than anyone else. If it stays broken through the next stable series, then start considering dropping the driver. That's how it works in the other subsystems. (FYI, you'll probably find that most people who didn't use the fbgen layer decided not to use it because of the fix <-> par <-> var mess it forced into the driver design.) -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf