Re: splitting ruby

[Christoph H. <hc...@ns...>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:10:33AM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> I agree except you will not see the rest of the input stuff go into
> 2.4.X. We will have to wait until 2.5.0. I have talked to Geert about this
> as well. I think the best attack plan is:
>
> 1) Dump all the input drivers into the console system.
> 2) Change all the fbdev drivers too.
> 3) Change the console system.
>
> I don't know if linus would be willing to dump all our work in at one
> time. If he would be willing to do so then I would dump it all in. This of
> course would require that we have partily working functionality on ALL
> platforms. I can test the stuff on PPC, sparcs and alpha as well but
> haven't yet. Plus I need to get into contact with the other platform
> developers for this.
 
I'd also favor the partially merge.
IMHO the following order is best:

1) move the busmouse code (excluding ps2, because it is more difficult)
   over to input in 2.5.<veryearly> and merge the serial mouse code.
2) move over the other input drivers to new-style input code.  This
   will include Martin's old version of keyboard.c for the input drivers.
3) merge the new console code.  If possible in smaller chunks, because
   Linus likes that.

	Christoph

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