Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:52:03 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c |
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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Martin Mares wrote: > [1] The remaining patches are not only bug fixes to fbcon, but mostly > final versions of drivers as sent to me by their maintainers. I remember > you saying that you _no_way_ want zillions of driver updates and I should > queue them up and send as a single large patch.
Can't anybody understand that things change?
That was several months ago, and it was without some of the problems I've had with the console patches.
> [2] Since this stuff (except for fbcon+vesafb) doesn't affect i386 at all, > I expected you want to handle it as usual arch/ stuff, i.e. no fine-grained > separation.
That used to be true. It's not true any more since I've gotten patches that were reported to not impact anything that I cared about, and they did. As it is, I want to know that what I'm putting in is ok.
Linus
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