stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:16:10AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:15:54PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > Ye-ess... Let's all go monolithic again.
> 
> Going monolithic for the XF86 DDX and drivers written to it makes a lot
> of sense as Dave and other have explained.  That doesn't mean all the
> libraries, tools and other DDXes have to go in the same tree.  Starting
> from day one I never got why people wanted to split the drivers out
> because it leads to exactly the problems outlined in this thread.

So what people are saying is, going modular was ok. But this whole 
driver SDK thing that we were so glad of existed at the time we went 
modular, that SDK should be tossed completely?

Luc Verhaegen.
SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer - who has actually done actual drivers 
against various trees and SDKs since 2003, and who didn't find it that 
cumbersome at all.