Ansification of X.Org code & other cleanup work

Paulo César Pereira de Andrade pcpa at mandriva.com.br
Thu Nov 27 22:41:13 PST 2008


> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> in your mail starting this thread
>
>> If someone wanted to organize a "janitorial squad" to tackle these and
>> help
>> new people work through them to get to the point where they were ready
>> for
>> commit access, we'd love you forever (or at least until you turn us down
>> when we then volunteer you to be the next release manager).
>
>> [3] 122 open bugs, though many patches aren't keyworded:
>> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=patch&product=Xorg&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
>
> you suggested to have a look at these bugs and patches. In the meantime I
> have done just that.  There are quite a few easy ones (apply cleanly to
> current git and are obvious changes such as strict ANSI C function
> definitions, fixing some small bugs, and similar).
>
> Here my recommendations:
>
> ====================
>
> app/viewres
>  	bugid=18479 patchid=20208	apply
>
> app/xf86dga
>  	bugid=15084 patchid=15215	apply
>
> app/xfd
>  	bugid=18479 patchid=20209	apply
>
> app/xfontsel
>  	bugid=15083 patchid=15214	apply
>
> app/xgc
>  	bugid=18479 patchid=20210	apply
>
> app/xkbprint
>  	bugid=12790 patchid=12008	apply, maybe without commented old code
>  	bugid=15078 patchid=15207	apply with --whitespace=fix
>
> app/xkbutils
>  	bugid=15077 patchid=15206	apply
>
> app/xload
>  	bugid=15075 patchid=15205	apply
>
> app/xlsfonts
>  	bugid=15073 patchid=15203	apply
>
> app/xmessage
>  	bugid=15072 patchid=15202	apply
>
> app/xmh
>  	bugid=15071 patchid=15201	apply
>  	bugid=18479 patchid=20211	apply
>
> app/xprop
>  	bugid=16154 patchid=16813	apply
>
> app/xsm
>  	bugid=15066 patchid=15196	apply
>  	bugid=18479 patchid=20212	apply
>
> ====================
>
> where bugid=nnnn refers to
>  	http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=nnnnn
> and patchid=nnnnn to
>  	http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=nnnnn
>
> ====================
>
> Note: patches 20208-20212 have been submitted by me.  They correct an
> obvious build failure along the lines already applied to app/xedit, but
> nevertheless they need independent review and approval.
>
> Regards
> Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>

  Hi,

  I just applied all the patches. Thanks, and sorry for the delay.

Paulo




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