On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 11:17:26AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On 6/11/10 24:45 , Luc Verhaegen wrote: >> >> I do not see the point still. >> >> This will catch no ABI issues at all as it uses nothing. > > for me, that's not the point of the merge. my motivation is to reduce > the time spent on some uncommonly used drivers. these drivers see little > updates past the ABI fixes but still have users. by merging them into > the server, the ABI ifdefs will go away, the code will be cleaner, time > spent updating them goes down. further down the road, the drivers could > likely share common code paths that are essentially copy/paste now > between the trees anyway. not sure that'll happen anytime soon.
How often do you intend to change the API in a way that even the void driver needs to be adjusted? Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
