From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 20:23:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 20:23:21 -0500 Received: from [144.137.80.33] ([144.137.80.33]:32240 "EHLO e4.eyal.emu.id.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 20:23:05 -0500 Message-ID: <3C1166FE.C03F0597@eyal.emu.id.au> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 12:03:58 +1100 From: Eyal Lebedinsky Organization: Eyal at Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre6 drm-4.0 In-Reply-To: <4719.1007767953@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Keith Owens wrote: > > On 07 Dec 2001 18:27:11 -0500, > Robert Love wrote: > >On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 18:20, Keith Owens wrote: > > > >> How long do people plan to keep drm 4.0 code in their versions of the > >> kernel? > > > >For 2.5, there probably is no intention of keeping that around. But can > >we honestly ditch it in the middle of a stable kernel? Personally I > >don't use it, but its not polite ... > > Linus ditched drm 4.0 months ago. It only survives in arch add on > patches like ia64 and in -ac trees. Well, I am on Debian stable, and the only Xfree4 contributed packages are for 4.0. I will move on to 4.1 when Debian moves on, but as you know they are slower than a tired snail when it comes to new releases. I wonder how many other people use these 4.0 packages off: deb ftp://debian.cri74.org/debian-cri potato/contrib_luis_sismeiro main non-free -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au)