Hi, On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:58:49PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 09:17:55PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> > The whole idea of a stable branch is, well, that it's supposed to be > > stable... Upgrading to a newer point release should *fix* bugs, not add > > stuff that is likely to introduce new ones. Avoiding regressions is the > > top priority here. > > Sure, but adding support for new hardware very rarely regresses old > hardware. The only difference is that people with new hardware go from > definitely not working to probably working. Unless that hardware worked fine before with VESA or some other fallback driver; and unless The Unexpected happens, and the changes for supporting new hardware do break other parts of the driver after all... -antrik- _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
