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[Arne Schmitz]

Am Montag, 21. Juli 2008 01:43:15 schrieb Aaron Plattner:
> > I appreciate your decision to ship a binary-only driver.  It's not my
> > concern, nor is it my place to tell you (NVIDIA) what to do.  X.Org's
> > license even allows this sort of thing, for good or bad.  (Perhaps if we
> > had better documentation, the SI could merely be that: a _sample_
> > implementation.)
> >
> > What you're doing, aside from being partially pointless (this will
> > rarely work in master due to ABI changes, and no-one outside of some
> > admittedly very nice buildings in Mountain View can recompile), is
>
> It's not pointless, it provides improved functionality for users who
> install the driver with a supported server.  If it's not supported, it
> falls back to nv, just like it would without this change.

I'm a user and I second Aaron's opinion. Please leave the autoconfig support 
for nvidia drivers in, if you care one bit for your users.

Cheers,

Arne

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