Re: [PATCH 06/20] vt8623fb: New framebuffer driver for VIA VT8623

["Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>]

On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 01:38:34AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 01:31:47AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:07:37AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > > 
> > > Yep, just looking at that patch, it will be a difficult one to clean up.
> > > 
> > > Tony
> > 
> > It takes a special kind of idiot to take something like that on and 
> > keep it up too.
> 
> So you're better off with the rudimentary driver, at least that can be 
> fixed on reasonable terms.

It would be nice to have a clean driver with enough features so
people don't have to hunt around in a maze of different driver versions
to get the features they need. It's a shame people have just forked the
driver several times without really trying to work on a common codebase
and get it included in the kernel.

I think a big portion of the blame falls on VIA since they are the
original authors and the they have decided not to work with the community.
Maybe that's changing now that they posted the patches (even though they
aren't clean). I didn't really read the viafb patch thread so I missed the
details. Are they are prepared to clean it up or do they just expect to
dump the code here and forget about it?

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@sci.fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/

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