On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:27:34PM -0200, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote: > >> looking at the git log, jamstudio is dead and I'd rather bury it than > >> put > >> janitor patches in. It makes it look like the driver actually matters. > > > > we cannot simply put these dead drivers/libs/etc in some cgit limbo > > directory well hidden from the mortal humans? Just to organize a little > > bit the things. > > I wonder if anybody has tested these drivers for a long time. > Still they are packaged and distributed by most distros. So, either > they are working, or people that use this hardware is stuck with some > old distro or custom setup.
Or they have switched without noticing. the kernel provides a number of drivers and these devices will be picked up by evdev. > But while the repositories exist, the minimum that could be done > is to have it consistent, and buildable. Because it's there we have to maintain it even if we don't have evidence that anyone uses it? > Well, and "new hardware" apparently is having a tough time to > keep track of the speed input api/abi changes :-) (But this is > talking about one vendor only, and it's binary drivers still > only for X Server 1.4). Having an API/ABI break every few months that requires a few LOC change and can fairly easily be #ifdef'd around every is too fast? Maybe that vendor should look at open-sourcing the driver then. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
