On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:58:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:32:14AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:58:15PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I think it would be really dumb for a driver author to re-use an > > > existing name for a different purpose. > > > > Well, Synaptics could branch out and start making graphics cards, for > > example. > > I think it would probably be a bad design to have input drivers and > display drivers stuffed into the same object. > > That doesn't mean it won't happen, but it should be rare enough that an > ad-hoc approach will work. Right, but I'm just saying that you'd then have to have xfree86-driver-synaptics-input and xfree86-driver-synaptics-graphics, or whatever ... a more realistic example is Intel, who seem to be enjoying their current i8??G hegemony. Ad-hoc should still, as you say, work. -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org> Debian X Strike Force: http://people.debian.org/~branden/xsf/
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