On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > David Dawes wrote: > > I've never seen a good answer to this one. If I were submitting patches, > > I'd be discussing them here. It is usually a good idea to do that anyway, > > regardless of the patch submission mechanisms.
> Not all patches are worth bothering everyone here with discussion > of - some are simply straightforward changes that there isn't much > to talk about. > For instance, yesterday I submitted a patch in bugzilla bug 890 for > the few people who try to run XFree86 on Solaris/sparc and use the > constype program. It adds support for identifying UPA & PCI video > cards. Nothing controversial, nothing even of interest to the vast > majority of people here, just a patch I thought might be useful to > someone so submitted. .. and it has been committed and will be part of 4.4. > I'm getting ready to submit an XDMCP/IPv6 patch as soon as I finish > testing it that will change the default IPv6 multicast address to the > one IANA finally assigned after we decided to go ahead and start the > standards public review without waiting for it. I don't think there's > much there worth discussing, but would like to see it in the 4.4 release > so it doesn't go out with a different multicast group address than everyone > else (and presumably later XFree releases) will be using. Such a patch will likely make it into 4.4, because, among other things, you are in fact building a case to do that here, which, I believe is David's point, no? Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
