On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 12:19:45 +0000 Daniel Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Pekka, > > On 6 February 2017 at 12:00, Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:05:51 +0000 > > Daniel Stone <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think we've got to choose between fixing it for 1.13 and removing it > >> immediately after release (which I will happily do), or just ripping > >> it out now. > > > > I believe it works already as well as it ever has. Therefore any change > > to how it works is something no user has ever seen before. > > > > I reviewed update_outputs() from Weston 1.10 release (a random pick) > > and it seems that too uses --connector only for start-up, and never for > > hotplug. The same for Weston 1.7, so I believe it has never worked any > > better. > > > > If --connector didn't work *at all* currently, then I'd agree on just > > removing it right now. OTOH, I have seen notes that --connector has > > actually been used in the wild, which is why I'd say it's a major > > feature to remove: it has a risk of user-visible breakage (unknown > > command line option). > > OK, fair enough. I'd suggest we: > - merge Emre's two patches as legitimate bugfixes > - document --connector as deprecated in NEWS for 2.0 (must stop typing 1.13) > - remove it for 2.1 (or 3.0 or whatever) > > How's that sound? For the record, these two patches are: > Acked-by: Daniel Stone <[email protected]> If you want to merge them, that's fine. I just wont bother myself. Thanks, pq
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