From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ville =?iso-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] vt8623fb: New framebuffer driver for VIA VT8623 Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 04:36:17 +0300 Message-ID: <20070506013617.GA29760@sci.fi> References: <463C996A.9050005@gmail.com> <20070505181551.GB6016@sci.fi> <20070505200801.GA28014@localhost.localdomain> <20070505203450.GC6016@sci.fi> <20070505224855.GA18807@skynet.be> <1178406457.22828.7.camel@daplas> <20070505233147.GA19039@skynet.be> <20070505233834.GA19120@skynet.be> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HkVfi-00053A-Rp for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 05 May 2007 18:36:23 -0700 Received: from smtp6.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.40]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HkVfg-0007qm-NY for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 05 May 2007 18:36:22 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070505233834.GA19120@skynet.be> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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 Syrj=E4l=E4 syrjala@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/