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Re: Patches: 070,072,075



On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> 070_fbdevhw_device_node_warnings
> --------------------------------
> Mostly upstream in 4.3.0  The following chunk isn't:
> @@ -296,34 +296,45 @@
>  	}
>  	if (namep)
>  	    *namep = NULL;
> +	xf86DrvMsg(-1, X_ERROR,
> +		   "Unable to find a valid framebuffer device\n");
>  	return -1;
>  }
> 
> >From the comments in the patch, it's not clear to me whether that chunk
> is worth keeping or not.  But you (Branden) wrote it, so you should know.
> ;-)

Yes, in my opinion, it is.  I added this because I was get mysterious
bug reports from fbdev users; they were experiencing failures with no
visible cause.  Turns out they didn't have a /dev/fb (or /dev/fb0) node
in their filesystem.

> 072_r128_dma_for_xv_option
> --------------------------
> Upstream in 4.3.0.
> 
> 075_conditionalize_xie_headers
> ------------------------------
> Unchanged, renamed to 020_conditionalize_xie_headers.diff
> 
> However, it was dealt with in a more drastic way in upstream HEAD
> (in revision 3.54 of xc/include/extensions/Imakefile)
> by removing the XIE and PEX code entirely and unconditionally.
> So this patch can be noted as being irrelevant for 4.4.0 and subsequent
> releases of XFree86.

Thanks as always for your efforts!

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    The basic test of freedom is
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    perhaps less in what we are free to
branden@debian.org                 |    do than in what we are free not to
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    do.                  -- Eric Hoffer

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