linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm - fixes + radeon KMS (part 2)

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:03:09 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ryan Hope <rmh3093@...il.com>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm - fixes + radeon KMS (part 2)

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:56:31AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Linus
> Torvalds<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>
> >> Linus can you pull this tree?
> >
> > I hate pulling trees when I know there are _known_ bugs.
> >
> > Even during the merge window. The rest of the -rc series is for fixing up
> > bugs, yes, but not bugs that were introduced on purpose.
> >
> 
> It only happens if the user enable staging drivers, and I suspect staging
> has much worse bugs, but okay I'll put the initcall fix into the tree
> and send you another pull request.

Note, distros enable the staging tree to pick up drivers they were
previously including anyway.  So that is quite a large userbase :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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