Re: A correction for xf86cfg Cards database

On Saturday 25 of June 2005 23:14, David Dawes wrote:
> 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 Anything that over-specifies static configuration data (as the out-of-date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. 

Yeah, I thought so but I rather asked first.

> 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.

What do you mean by "unnecessary data". Does this include such entries like 
this one that is wrong?


Dejan