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Re: XFree86 update question



On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 05:38:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:17:11PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > So Tom's gotten ahead of me on merges.  It's still generally true.  It
> 
> not for 2.2 its not, and hasn't been for a very long time, since
> 2.2.17 in actuality.  2.4.10pre6 or so is said to be nearly complete
> in the powerpc merge (says Tom Rini).  2.4.8 was plenty far enough for
> most purposes (except laptops), 2.4.9 had some minor breakage (on more
> then just powerpc, sparc too).  
> 
> > will also go into kernel.org if I put it into bitkeeper.  This is all
> > dodging the actual issue.
> 
> your talking about changing this default upstream? that is a different
> issue.  i object to debian's kernel behaving differently then all
> other kernels in use everywhere else.   however changing this default
> out from under people EVERYWHERE i think is a very very bad idea.

I'm not talking about changing the defaults for anything.  I'm talking
about a config option so that we default to Linux keycodes but anyone
who needs ADB keycodes can get them.

I'm not even entirely convinced it is necessary.  That's getting lost
again.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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