stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:24:39PM +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Lukas Hejtmanek a écrit :
> > What makes you think that non modular drivers will be synced with X server
> > changes? It is up to maintainers to watch X server changes and make patches as
> > appropriate.
> 
> In Kernel Land (tm), if you modify a subsystem (say the USB one), you 
> get to fix all the bundled drivers before Linus et al. accept your 
> patch. Of course, that doesn't guarantee that the driver still works as 
> intended, but that at least it builds.

Except for drivers which aren't built by default (a lot of them), which
get compilation breakages.

> It's much easier to fix something that builds and runs.

No, not really.  Compilation errors are obvious.  If you just do a
trivial substitution and stuff it up, then things get much harder.
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