[meta-intel] [PATCH] xserver-xf86-config: remove redundant files, clean up broken ones

[Tom Zanussi]

On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 00:43 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 19 September 2013 00:31, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 23:23 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> >> Most BSPs appear to be derived from what appears to be a stale copy of the
> >> atom-pc xorg.conf which was either repeating defaults (the screen
> >> configuration), pointlessly hard-coding (specifying video driver when X can
> >> auto-probe), or actively harmful (disabling hotplugged input devices).  Delete
> >> the files which can be removed, and remove the bad hotplug disabling options
> >> from the others.
> >
> > This has been something I've wanted to see improved for a long time.
> > Typically we do changes like with one patch per BSP to help keep things
> > a bit more flexible in the face of regressions.
> 
> I started doing that but then got rapidly bored with copy-paste...  I
> can split it up though.
> 
> > Which of these BSPs did you test and verify work after this patch?
> 
> Two classes of patches: delete the file and trim the file.
> 
> Where xorg.conf was deleted the only hardware I can (and did) test it
> on was NUC.  I guess a representative sample of vesa and mga hardware
> should be verified to still boot.
> 

I pulled in the nuc changes, but will wait for the individual BSP owners
to ack the changes for their BSPs before pulling in the others.

> One instance of the trim patch was tested by Saul on his Minnow (whose
> report of a broken touchscreen prompted this series) and oe-core has
> had the same change for atom-pc/genericx86 for some time now.
> 

And of course Darren will need to pull in the minnow changes.

Thanks,

Tom

> Ross
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