>>">" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raul> Perhaps I've missed something?
>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 10:20:59AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Did you get Herberts mail detailing his objections to the
>> inclusion of vesafb?
>> I made an earlier comment on that discussion thread:
>> "This is an argument for the kernel architects. We're not kernel
>> architects, however -- we're distributors.
>> "The kernel architects, for whatever reason, have decreed that if you
>> want both vesafb and fbcon in a current version of Linux, you have to
>> have them both compiled in statically.
You are making an assumption that thre is intelligent desing
-- thet there is a coherent body of kernel architects, that encompass
all subsystems and modules.
There is not.
Decisions in kernel space are decentralized, and no one has
made a determination and passed a decree that vesafb and fbcon must
both be sompiled in into the kernel, and that is good.
The consensus on the lkml, and elsewhere is that modularity of
kernels is good; and vesafb is not modular (to be fair, it may not be
possible to modularize vesafb because of technical reasons [something
to do with it needs to be in place before the kernel goes into
protected mode]).
I must confess that I can't imagine that the set of people who
a) Can't live with text mode
b) Can't use X
c) Won't compile their own custome kernel
can be very large at all.
It all boils down to a non technical judgement call -- whether
the worth function of modularity offsets the utility of a precompiled
kernel containing vesafb for what maybe an infinitesimal audience;
and whether we can come up with a convincing enough case to override
a maintainer.
I reiterate, overriding the maintainer must never be trivially
undertaken, and ought not to be done on guess work, or without a
strongly defensible case. None of which I see at the moment.
manoj
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Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be
promoted. --anonymous
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