On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 08:07:06PM -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 14:54 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote: > > > understand so much the reason for that). So "remove ISA bus code, as > > support > > is removed from xserver" is not the argument. > > Agreed > > > > > On the other hand, we don't have a policy defined to deprecate a given > > functionality of a driver after a given time or versions. So we could > > go now > > and deprecate ISA from there easily. > > > The ISA bus support was removed from server end of 2008. I thought > people would have complained by now if their computer with ISA bus would > not work any more. Some of them must have upgraded to server 1.6. But > it's just a guessing game. > > The motivation for this patch is simply for clean-up, not big deal, but > I have noticed functional maintenance work in this area. Removing dead > code can save maintenance, if we can be sure it's really dead. > > It would be useful to have an up-to-date PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XORG, > [xorg-server >= ????] statement in each driver. It would tell developers > how far back to check for compatibility.
I'd be wary of changing drivers that only see a few patches a year, most of them build fixes. Fix bugs when reported if you're interested but otherwise I think your time could be more efficiently spent elsewhere, with drivers that matter more to users today. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
