From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Simmons Subject: Re: Some questions Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:53:04 +0000 (GMT) Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <3E667671.9040805@winischhofer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167] helo=phoenix.infradead.org) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18qihl-0003Nw-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:53:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3E667671.9040805@winischhofer.net> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Thomas Winischhofer Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Antonino Daplas , Linux Fbdev development list > > I should of but didn't because I knew driver would take teh path of lest > > resistance to port there drivers. TO much change would have made the > > current situtation much much worst. > > One could argue that changing stuff more or less constantly does not > make it any easier to keep up with a working driver.... :) Well that was a policy change later on. At first the approach was small changes at a time. I was even converting each driver by myself. This upset some people. It was discussed the best solution would be to dump all the changes at one time and then let the driver maintainers deal with it. That is why the shift in what was going on. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com