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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: 14 X input drivers
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:19:34
Message-Id: 4A5B506E.7040503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: 14 X input drivers by "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)"
1 Le 13/07/2009 16:56, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) a écrit :
2 > Why were they marked "unsupported" by upstream? Is there a replacement, are they
3 > no longer needed, some other reason?
4
5 Some are now supported by the kernel. For the rest, nobody owns the
6 hardware anymore. (ur98 is for a head-tracker... does anyone own that?)
7
8 All have in common that they've been broken (in portage) for many months
9 and no-one noticed until Sabayon folks started doing tinderbox builds :)
10
11 If someone is sincerely impacted by this, please get in touch with
12 upstream (CC me) because most of those drivers could come back to life
13 with very little work. They mostly need someone testing them.
14
15 But as they stand now, I'm getting rid of them.
16
17 Cheers,
18
19 Rémi

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: 14 X input drivers Robert Buchholz <rbu@g.o>