Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:51:15 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > I have stopped synching up to vger a _long_ time ago. Anybody who still
> > thinks vger has _any_ relevance to the standard kernel is very much
> > misguided.
>
> In that case, please disable CONFIG_FB completely on the Intel platform, so I
> won't see any complaints about it anymore. And be sure 2.2 will support less
> platforms than 2.0. Other platforms rely on an up-to-date drivers/video.
I won't disable it, I will just hope that responsible people send me
reasonable patches. I put my foot down on the hundred-megabyte patches I
was continually getting from the console people, and I want to have the
problem fixed as much as the next person.
Linus
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