[PATCH xf86-video-trident] Fix up deprecated/obsolete code.

Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-MS/Helsinki) tiago.vignatti at nokia.com
Tue Aug 3 09:29:58 PDT 2010


On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 05:11:44PM +0200, ext Trevor Woerner wrote:
> Hi Tiago,
> 
> Thanks for having a look at my patch. I was surprised nobody picked up
> on the idea of fixing up these xmalloc()/xfree()/etc. functions
> already, but then I found this in the archives from Alan Coopersmith:
> 
> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-July/010804.html
> 
> Does this mean we shouldn't be fixing these things?

no, the opposite! This kind of fix is very welcome. I've done myself a similar
patch with nv driver. I remember also Peter done something with evdev and so on.


> In which case maybe I should just send a patch to fixup the #include by itself?

Maybe this blog post answer you:

http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-commit-messages.html

Lemme know if you need me to push your changes to the repository.


Thank you, 
             Tiago


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