Re: A correction for xf86cfg Cards database

On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 01:39:57PM +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
>There's a tweak for xf86cfg Cards database at 
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/32121
>
>I wonder if such change still makes sense to be submitted to Bugzilla or is 
>xf86cfg rather deprecated wrt newer autoconfigure methods.

Anything that over-specifies static configuration data (as the out-of-date
Cards database does) should be avoided.  Such things should be limited
to exceptions/workarounds and user/system preferences.  While the utilties
that use the Cards database continue to be used, it may be useful to
eliminate the unnecessary data in the Cards database.  A patch that does
this would be welcome.

Moving forward though, exceptions/workarounds, where possible, should
be fixed in the drivers so that they no longer need to be specified, and
should be added to the xfree86.cfg file with a version-specific rule.

David
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