[PATCH] EXA support for i830 (for real this time!)

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 13:25, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 13:06 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > In general, I would prefer that EXA patches not attempt to also
> > conditionalize XAA out at compile time.  We don't want to even give
> > people the option of disabling XAA for at least a release cycle.
> >
> > I want to be able to look at a patch and see all the conditionalization
> > happening based on runtime flags.  If I have to learn news ifdefs to
> > follow the code too, I'm much less likely to understand it when I read
> > it, and that makes me less likely to want to merge it.
>
> That said, if we've already done the conditionalization, should we rip
> it out?  I hope not -- it was really annoying, and I'd rather someone
> not have to do it again.

If it's already there I don't mind, as long as the submitter doesn't mind 
getting bug reports for any possible permutation ;)

- ajax
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