From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove cyblafb driver Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:34:32 -0700 Message-ID: <20090309133432.ac6173cd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090307234902.55295e2c.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sfi-mx-2.v28.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.28.122] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by 335xhf1.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LgmC5-0001cN-4Z for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:35:25 +0000 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]) by 72vjzd1.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) id 1LgmBj-00074L-3t for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:35:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20090307234902.55295e2c.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Krzysztof Helt Cc: jani@ubuntu.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Knut_Petersen@t-online.de On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:49:02 +0100 Krzysztof Helt wrote: > A tridentfb driver has all functionality > of the cyblafb driver without bugs of > the latter. So what are the implications of this for users? They'll do an `oldconfig', will discover that their driver isn't there any more and will then need to dig around through commit messges to find out what happened to it? I guess we can live with that, and I can't immediately think of a way of improving their lives, so ho hum.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H