Re: A correction for xf86cfg Cards database

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 01:45:37AM +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
>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 Anything that over-specifies static configuration data (as the out-of-date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?

Unnecessary data is any configuration information that isn't required
in in order for XFree86 to run on a particular card.  In almost all
cases, the only thing required is the driver name.  The chipset
information, which was wrong in this entry, is not necessary here.

David
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