[PATCH video-chips 1/3] config: remove ISA bus code, as support is removed from xserver

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 14:54 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:

> understand so much the reason for that). So "remove ISA bus code, as
> support
> is removed from xserver" is not the argument. 

Agreed

> 
> On the other hand, we don't have a policy defined to deprecate a given
> functionality of a driver after a given time or versions. So we could
> go now
> and deprecate ISA from there easily.


The ISA bus support was removed from server end of 2008. I thought
people would have complained by now if their computer with ISA bus would
not work any more. Some of them must have upgraded to server 1.6. But
it's just a guessing game.

The motivation for this patch is simply for clean-up, not big deal, but
I have noticed functional maintenance work in this area. Removing dead
code can save maintenance, if we can be sure it's really dead.

It would be useful to have an up-to-date PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XORG,
[xorg-server >= ????] statement in each driver. It would tell developers
how far back to check for compatibility.

Thanks
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