From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: More Fbdev policies.
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 03:14:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ag7d53$ptg$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207051302300.30731-100000@www.transvirtual.com>
Hi!
> Recently I was porting several fbdev drivers over to the new api. Some
> driver writers asked to have the changes reverted. So anyone who wants the
> drivers reverted to the previous state say so. I will revert them. I did
> this not to break any drivers but have a smooth transition. This will not
> be the case now.
>
> NOTE:
> I will begin change the upper fbdev layer monday thus breaking most
> if not all drivers. It is up to the maintainers to fix them. If not
> fixed by the end of the developement cycle they will be dropped.
End of development cycle == 2.6.0 or 2.6.20? It would probably make
sense to only mark them broken for stable series, they are pretty
likely to be fixed there.
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-06 18:28 UTC|newest]
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2002-07-05 20:35 More Fbdev policies James Simmons
2002-07-06 1:14 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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