Re: BLFS-12.3: Xorg-server/TearFree-patch/unclear wording

"Xi Ruoyao" ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel
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On Mon, 2025-03-17 at 11:41 +0100, Rainer Fiebig wrote:
> This text concerning the TearFree-patch for Xorg-server doesn't make
> sense to me:
> 
> "With the removal of the xf86-video-* drivers, the TearFree option is no
> longer functional. To work around this, upstream has added the TearFree
> option to the default modesetting driver. This patch backports this
> feature. [...]"
> 
> If upstream (the Xorg-devs, I guess?) has already added the TearFree
> option, as the text suggests, it would not be necessary to apply the
> patch.

It's added in the master branch, but not the 21.1.x release branch.

> I suppose what's meant is that the patch re-enables the TearFree
> option in the modesetting driver?  If that's correct, I suggest the
> following wording:

No it's not correct.  TearFree in modesetting is a new feature.


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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

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