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

[Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>]

On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 04:36:17AM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> 
> 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?

I of course don't know anything what i say here for sure, but i'd be 
really surprised if VIA did change their act.

VIA has a history of either:
* freeing code, seeing it cleaned up and included in the relevant 
project, yet continuing a seperate fork in VIA-space nonetheless (X 
driver).
* purposefully forking projects to keep VIA specific adaptations in 
(xine, mplayer)

I don't see why this here would be any different.

If VIAs own driver does get reworked by fb/kernel people and included, 
then VIA will not accept these changes and will just continue things 
seperately themselves.

The fact that some backward compatibility defines were deemed 
superfluous already, and the fact that VIAs direct customers probably 
want those things to be possible for quite some time still, will mean 
that VIA will see no other option but to keep things in their own fork.

History repeating.

Luc Verhaegen.
http://unichrome.sf.net/

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