Re: More Fbdev policies.

Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Sat, 6 Jul 2002 03:14:03 +0200


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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