From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:04:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:04:48 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([212.34.181.86]:3345 "EHLO verein.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:04:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:15:47 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Alan Cox Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] intelfb fixes Message-ID: <20030324201546.A11416@lst.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net References: <20030321193703.A12179@lst.de> <1048537227.25652.33.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1048537227.25652.33.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:20:27PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:20:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 18:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > It looks like someone is trying to make the kernel looling as messy > > as XFree.. > > > > Remove the silly symlinking rules from the intelfb makefile and remove > > one of the copies of the private copy of modedb in intelfb. Maybe > > someone who actually has the hardware could fix it to properly use > > modedb directly. > > No longer compiles with that change It _does_ compile (after actually adding intelfb to Config.in) in Marcelo's tree. You're probably hit by the symlink braindamage in the original driver tarball..