Re: DRM and 2.4 ...

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Aug 16 2004 - 02:13:37 EST


On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 07:56, Dave Airlie wrote:
> At the moment we are adding a lot of 2.6 stuff to the DRM under
> development in the DRM CVS tree and what will be merged into the -mm and
> Linus trees eventually, this has meant ifdefing stuff out so 2.4 will
> still work,

which is uglyfying the code significantly if done wrong

> So the question is do we want to a final stable DRM for 2.4 in the next
> 2.4 release? and after that point I can tag the 2.4 release in the DRM CVS
> tree (and maybe branch it ...),

I would strongly urge you to no longer update DRM in 2.4 in significant
ways. 2.4 is the release for doing strict maintenance; people who want
to run newer X will generally run 2.6 kernels as well anyway.

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