Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261183AbVARIcJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:32:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261184AbVARIcJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:32:09 -0500 Received: from mail-ex.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:64737 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261183AbVARIb4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:31:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16876.51577.411991.919785@xf14.local> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:31:53 +0100 From: Egbert Eich To: Alan Cox Cc: Egbert Eich , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11 In-Reply-To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote on Monday, 17 January 2005 at 16:30:23 +0000 References: <16867.58009.828782.164427@xf14.fra.suse.de> <1105745463.9839.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> <16875.32871.47983.655764@xf14.local> <1105961582.12709.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> <16875.52184.169399.632936@xf14.local> <1105979422.15109.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1201 Lines: 31 Alan Cox writes: > On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 14:29, Egbert Eich wrote: > > OK, sounds promising. The changed Xserver pieces are in HEAD of the > > X.Org tree. I'll see that I make the necessary adjustments to have > > a soft detection if you can give me a version number of the kernel > > which will have the new features. > > Send a copy directly to torvalds@osdl.org and akpm@osdl.org for merging. > It looks fine to me. You'll need to include a "Signed-off-by: .." line > to indicate you are submitting it and have the rights to do so. You can > tag it with "Approved-by: Alan Cox ". Thanks, I will do that. I have attached the patch for kernel version detection to the freedesktop.org bugzilla (#2277) assuming this feature will be in the kernel starting with version 2.6.11. > > If you mention you need to know what kernel merges it for the X11 check > I'm sure you'll get an answer. > OK, will do. Thanks! Egbert. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/