Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error

[Thomas Winischhofer <thomas _at_ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> 
>>The whole framebuffer stuff in 2.6 is ancient. (Look at the file dates.)
> 
> 
> Note that the fb stuff is ancient because it's basically not maintained as 
> far as I'm concerned.

Erm, well, _I_ know. But I assume you meant this message mainly for the 
public.

> I'm sorry, but this i show it is.  The fbcon people have been changing 
> interfaces faster than they have been fixing bugs in the code. Together

You tell me. I actually stopped adapting sisfb for a couple of months 
during the 2.5 development cycle - I could not keep up with the speed of 
substantial changes either.

> with the fact that most of the development seems to happen in outside 
> trees, and nobody ever sends me fixes relative to the released tree, this 
> makes for a pretty bad situation.
> 
> I really think that development should happen in the regular tree, or at 
> least be synched up in reasonable chunks THAT DO NOT BREAK everything.
> 
> I realize that some fb developers seem to disagree with me, but the fact 
> is, the way things are done now, fb will _always_ be broken. Most people 
> for whom the standard kernel works will never test the fb development 
> trees, so those trees will never get any amount of reasonable testing. As 
> a result, they WILL be buggy, and synching with them WILL be painful as 
> hell.

Isn't a large part of the fbcon/dev stuff in current 2.6 broken anyway? 
Could it become worse by merging James' current changes? But I guess 
this question - as well as the rest of your message - is for James to 
answer.

If the lastest and greatest of the fbdev stuff isn't merged with 2.6.2, 
I will revert the interface changes in sisfb and send a patch which 
works with the then-current vanilla kernel.

Thomas

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