Re: the removal of Packard

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 05:55:16PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The DRI kernel code Tungsten delivers is usually far from the kernel
> > standards.  Kernel hackers (often from Red Hat) spend significant
> > amounts of time to fix it up and still is usually in a far worse shape
> > than other kernel code..
> 
> Be careful how you judge it. There are problems from the Linux
> side with DRI code, and one of them "The weird style" is down to the 
> portability goal. I'm dubious about the way thats tackled, but hey its
> their project.
> 
> The other stuff is generally the lack of small clean patches and the
> fact that Linux fixes never make it back to DRI (which DRI, or the Xfree
> tree is another part of that same mess). Thats at least partly our fault.

I thought Linus himself was contributing stuff back, at least for the
2.5.x tree. I may be wrong though, but he is active in the DRI mailing
list, and that was the impression i got from lurking there.

Friendly,

Sven Luther