David McWherter (dtm@vramp.net)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:51:07 -0400 (EDT)
> > > They might look more favorably on the updates if they were submitted as
> > > diff patches instead of straight file replacements.
> >
> > Right...I asked Cort what format he would prefer.
> > I haven't heard anything yet...
>
> Hope he responds soon. Anyone else we could route the updates through?
Cort indicated that either format would be hunkey dorey the last time
I submitted them to him a long while ago. One thing to note is that
Linux is undergoing lots of revisions - it may be hard to keep integrating
patches into the official distibution as well as making sure the newer
versions work in PPC-land simultaneously.
> > > What's missing is Doc for the ANS changes (ie: Configure.help for the
> > > ans-lcd and cirrus54m30fb drivers). Also, the configure prompt for the
> > > ans-lcd probably should be moved to the Character Devices Config.in
> > > instead of the ppc main config.in. Heck, perhaps the ans-lcd code should
> > > be moved to the drivers/char directory (it is a char device, after all).
> > > Also, an official major/minor device number needs to be allocate to the
> > > ans-lcd driver. 160 isn't an official number, if I recall.
> >
> > The LCD is not as important...
>
> Perhaps not, but I still think it should be moved...
The LCD driver is really a hack. I have a feeling that putting it
into the real Linux kernel almost mandates that we should update
it so that it's more compatible with the "right" way of doing things
(ie: choosing an appropriate device minor number, probing the system
correctly to make sure that the device is there before writing to
it, etc, etc). It shouldn't be a lot of work, but nonzero in magnitude.
> > any volunteers to do docs for the video and MACE changes?
>
> If no one else volunteers, I'll do it.
Are you looking for Configure-script messages, or something more in
depth? I've a feeling that what's there doesn't require much in
the way of extensive documentation - the MACE change is really just
a small 1-line patch or so (unless it's been extended since I
last looked at it), and the video patch is fairly vanilla - no
configuratable options, etc.
-David
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