stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 06:04:44AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>
> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:08:50 +0100
> 
> > In the case of the sun drivers, the same breakage could have happened
> > with a monolithic tree, because changes wouldn't have been build-tested
> > on sparc anyway.
> 
> That's really besides the point.

No, it isn't.

> And in this particular case
> drivers (sparc or not) have to choose between the old and new
> way of doing GC privates and such.

Again, this is called an API breakage.

If I cp -R drivers/usb from 2.6 git into 2.4.7, compilation fails.  Why
is this?? :(
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