Re: Linux 2.4.18-rc2

[Adrian Bunk]

Hi Marcelo,

as discussed in the thread of your 2.4.18-rc1 announcement (see [1] and
[2]) 2.4.18 adds CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT but the code doesn't compile.  It's
IMHO not a good a idea to add a new option that doesn't compile to a
stable kernel. Please apply the patch below that disables this option as a
workaround to 2.4.18:

--- drivers/video/Config.in.old	Thu Feb 21 00:18:54 2002
+++ drivers/video/Config.in	Thu Feb 21 00:20:02 2002
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
 	 fi
 	 tristate '  3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 display support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_FB_3DFX
 	 tristate '  3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (sst1) support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1
-	 tristate '  Trident support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT
+#	 tristate '  Trident support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT
       fi
    fi
    if [ "$ARCH" = "sparc" -o "$ARCH" = "sparc64" ]; then

TIA
Adrian

[1] http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-06/0985.html
[2] http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-06/0988.html