[Buildroot] [PATCH] xserver_xorg-server: backport hotplug support

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 Thomas> Unless I'm wrong X11R7.7 has been released some time ago, and
 Thomas> it includes X server 1.12, at
 Thomas> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/xserver/. So why would we
 Thomas> bother backporting 1.8 material to a 1.7 version? Upgrading the
 Thomas> complete X.org stack to X11R7.7 seems like a much more
 Thomas> appropriate solution. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious?

 Thomas> Moreover in general, we don't like to carry patches that aim at
 Thomas> adding features. We carry patches to fix build problems, or
 Thomas> sometimes architecture-specific fixes, but large new features
 Thomas> should not be added to packages using patches, otherwise
 Thomas> Buildroot will become an unmaintainable crap of patches.

Agreed.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard