Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c

Shawn Leas (sleas@ixion.honeywell.com)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:52:49 -0500 (CDT)


On 28 Sep 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.03.9809282005090.17348-100000@mercator.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>,
> Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> >
> >Please don't waste your time on creating these patches. These things are
> >functional in the vger tree (ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/README.CVS).
>
> He's not wasting time.
>
> 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.
>
> Linus

Don't take this the wrong way, but can we expect framebuffer support to
work from now on?

If the primary/only difference between vger and the official tree is
framebuffer support, and what's in the official tree is older or broken,
it almost makes more sense to remove it than keep old or broken code.

I am by NO MEANS knowledgable in this arena, but just don't like broken
kernels.

-Shawn
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