In fact the code is written to completely obscure what it is doing. It is worse than bad.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:05:11PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008-04-27, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008-04-27, Jason Beaudoin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I talked with the nvidia guy and he assured me that there is no way > >>> that they'll fix this in the open source driver. > >>> > >> > >> that's rather horrendous.. > >> anymore info on this? Was he referring to the nv developers from being > >> able to "figure out" the magick? or that his nVidia people were > >> unwilling to intervene? both? > > > > The nv developers *are* nVidia. > > Ah, it was pointed out offlist that I didn't look far enough back in > the history of the driver, this is only the recent work (basically > adding ids and a few smaller changes), the original driver is not from > them. But it is still not a maintainable driver.