On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 18:24, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 
> > Indeed, linux-kernel is too much for me to handle. I did post these
> > changes long before committing them and would have appreciated feedback
> > though, but sadly received none.
> 
> Hmm.. I follow dri-devel, but I didn't see any patches. I assume there is 
> a separate patch-list.

No, there is dri-patches but it's only for the CVS commit messages.

I only posted the patch in a followup to another post talking about a
patch with 2.5 compile fixes but not actually containing one, so it was
easy to miss.

> Since I'm not generally interested in most DRI patches, and since I _do_ 
> try to keep the current kernels up-to-date wrt the DRI repository anyway, 
> maybe people who do DRI kernel patches could just Cc: me on them?

Good idea, will do.


> > Looks beautiful indeed, but I'm not sure if there could be issues with
> > the BSDs - Eric?
> 
> It should be pretty portable, since it handles any kind of irq return
> value - whether void or not. So the BSD's should be happy with it too.

And they seem to be. :) I couldn't think of a problem either but wanted
to make sure.


> > Any great ideas for anything else Linus? :)
> 
> Hey, there's a few other #define's I hate that are pointless for a modern 
> kernel, but I don't have as clean solutions to them, 

Your ideas are always appreciated should this change. :)

> and I can generally just filter them out by hand when I do the merge.

Which I imagine can be a PITA though, too bad unifdef doesn't seem too
useful for the DRM code.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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