[forum] the removal of Packard

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sam, 2003-03-22 at 09:10, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:31:21AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > > But it's not just the ugly code, drm has lots of other issues like
> > > silent changes of ioctl ABIs between XFree releases, 
> > 
> > I'm not aware of this happening in a while except for a minor problem in
> > the 4.2 i810 DRM which could be fixed after the fact. Were there others?
> 
> See Alan's post.

I did, he basically confirmed what I said. :)


> > Speaking for myself, I always appreciate being educated about such
> > things, but I doubt ranting on random mailing lists serves this purpose.
> 
> You might start by looking at the #warnings Alan put into the drm code
> in -ac.

Thanks for the pointer, but _I_ don't have a problem with the DRM code,
and I've got more than enough other things to do right now.

> > > This ios mostly fixes.  Look into -ac or Red Hat's kernel tree to
> > > find them.
> > 
> > You're saying maintainers are supposed to collect fixes?
> 
> Yes.  Fixes (as opposed to new features) do happen in the kernel trees
> and you have to follow them.

I did get the impression from reading Kernel Traffic and LWN that
maintainers are supposed to be kept in the loop on fixes, but maybe that
impression was wrong. I'd certainly be glad if DRM fixes would be
discussed on the dri-devel list. Maybe some sort of contact person
between the kernel and DRI communities could help? Alan Cox seems a good
candidate to me, or are there other volunteers?


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast