From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] intelfb fixes Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:15:47 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030324201546.A11416@lst.de> References: <20030321193703.A12179@lst.de> <1048537227.25652.33.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([212.34.181.86]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18xXQc-0005ca-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:16:15 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline 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 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: Alan Cox Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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.. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf