From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: More Fbdev policies. Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 03:14:03 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from mail.clsp.jhu.edu ([128.220.34.27]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17QuI3-0001MV-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jul 2002 11:28:16 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Simmons Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list 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 -- Worst form of spam? Adding advertisment signatures ala sourceforge.net. What goes next? Inserting advertisment *into* email? ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Got root? We do. http://thinkgeek.com/sf