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On 3/17/25 6:52 AM, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-03-17 at 12:42 +0100, Rainer Fiebig wrote:
>> Am 17.03.25 um 12:17 schrieb Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev
>> Mailing List):
>>> On Mon, 2025-03-17 at 19:07 +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backporting, with [...] added
>>> by myself:
>>>
>>> Backporting is the action of taking parts from a newer version [Xorg
>>> development branch] of a software system or software component and
>>> porting them to an older version [Xorg 21.1.x] of the same software. It
>>> forms part of the maintenance step in a software development process,
>>> and it is commonly used for fixing security issues in older versions of
>>> the software and also for providing new features [TearFree] to older
>>> versions.
>>>
>>> Thus the note is correct and there's nothing to change.
>> Thanks for lecturing me. But that doesn't make the text in the note any
>> better. It's unclear at best and crappy IMO.
>
> So what would you suggest? I really don't want to replicate the
> definition of "backport" here as I expect the reader to either know it
> or search online for the definition if not knowing it already.
I suppose we can add to the sentence "..upstream has added the TearFree option to the
default modesetting driver" 'in their development tree.'
-- Bruce
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