[Buildroot] [PATCH] xserver_xorg-server: backport hotplug support

Richard Braun rbraun at sceen.net
Wed Jun 13 16:44:20 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:28:59PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Unless I'm wrong X11R7.7 has been released some time ago, and it
> includes X server 1.12, at
> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/xserver/. So why would we bother
> backporting 1.8 material to a 1.7 version? Upgrading the complete X.org
> stack to X11R7.7 seems like a much more appropriate solution. Or maybe
> I'm missing something obvious?

Simple lack of time on my part, and I thought it may still be useful.

> Moreover in general, we don't like to carry patches that aim at adding
> features. We carry patches to fix build problems, or sometimes
> architecture-specific fixes, but large new features should not be added
> to packages using patches, otherwise Buildroot will become an
> unmaintainable crap of patches.

Agreed.

-- 
Richard Braun


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