Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We're looking at reorganizing the way DRM drivers are maintained. > Currently, the DRM kernel code lives deep in a subdirectory of the DRI > tree (which is a partial copy of the XFree86 tree). We plan to move it > "up" to its own module at the top level. That should make it *much* > easier for people that want to do things with the DRM but don't want all > the rest of X (i.e., DRI w/DirectFB, etc.). > > When we do this move, we're open to the possibility of reorganizing the > file structure. What can we do to make it easier for kernel release > maintainers to merge changes into their trees?
- Make sure that the files in the main kernel distribution are up to date. - Prepare a shell script which does all the relevant file moves, send to Linus, along with a diff which fixes up Kconfig and Makefiles. - Start patching the files in their new locations. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
