From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intelfb fixes
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:15:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030324201546.A11416@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048537227.25652.33.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:20:27PM +0000
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:20:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 18:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > It looks like someone is trying to make the kernel looling as messy
> > as XFree..
> >
> > Remove the silly symlinking rules from the intelfb makefile and remove
> > one of the copies of the private copy of modedb in intelfb. Maybe
> > someone who actually has the hardware could fix it to properly use
> > modedb directly.
>
> No longer compiles with that change
It _does_ compile (after actually adding intelfb to Config.in) in
Marcelo's tree. You're probably hit by the symlink braindamage in
the original driver tarball..
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2003-03-21 18:37 [PATCH] intelfb fixes Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-24 20:20 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-24 19:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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