Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:58:49 +0100 | From | Thomas Winischhofer <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > >>The whole framebuffer stuff in 2.6 is ancient. (Look at the file dates.) > > > Note that the fb stuff is ancient because it's basically not maintained as > far as I'm concerned.
Erm, well, _I_ know. But I assume you meant this message mainly for the public.
> I'm sorry, but this i show it is. The fbcon people have been changing > interfaces faster than they have been fixing bugs in the code. Together
You tell me. I actually stopped adapting sisfb for a couple of months during the 2.5 development cycle - I could not keep up with the speed of substantial changes either.
> with the fact that most of the development seems to happen in outside > trees, and nobody ever sends me fixes relative to the released tree, this > makes for a pretty bad situation. > > I really think that development should happen in the regular tree, or at > least be synched up in reasonable chunks THAT DO NOT BREAK everything. > > I realize that some fb developers seem to disagree with me, but the fact > is, the way things are done now, fb will _always_ be broken. Most people > for whom the standard kernel works will never test the fb development > trees, so those trees will never get any amount of reasonable testing. As > a result, they WILL be buggy, and synching with them WILL be painful as > hell.
Isn't a large part of the fbcon/dev stuff in current 2.6 broken anyway? Could it become worse by merging James' current changes? But I guess this question - as well as the rest of your message - is for James to answer.
If the lastest and greatest of the fbdev stuff isn't merged with 2.6.2, I will revert the interface changes in sisfb and send a patch which works with the then-current vanilla kernel.
Thomas
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