linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm request 3

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Date:	Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:03:52 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Adam Jackson <ajax@...hat.com>
cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.sf.net
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Adam Jackson wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:14 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: 
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > If you'd made it clear that you wanted the interface to be stable 
> > > before it got merged, I suspect that it simply wouldn't have been merged 
> > > until the interface was stable.
> > 
> > What kind of excuse is that? It's "we did bad things, but if we didn't do 
> > those bad things, we'd have done _other_ bad things"?
> > 
> > Two wrong choices don't make a right.
> 
> So unmerge it.

That's what I told people I can do (I'd just revert that commit).

I can do that. But it's not very productive, is it? What about the people 
who _do_ want to run the rawhide tree?

Seriously - what's wrong with my suggestion to just version things 
properly? What's wrong with _fixing_ a stupid technical problem? What's 
wrong with people that you can't see that there are actual _solutions_ to 
the f*cking mess that is the current situation?

I can solve it for my own use, and I already stated so. But while kernel 
developers should be scratching their own itches, a kernel developer that 
can't see past his own small sandbox is pretty damn worthless. We do need 
to fix this - and I'm bringing it up and complaining about it, because the 
nouveau people have _not_ done anything remotely sane. 

The current situation causes problems for people. Anybody who disputes 
that is in denial. Can somebody come up with a _better_ solution than the 
one I suggested? Feel free to do so, but in the meantime, I have to say 
that your reply and that of Matthew and others have been totally 
pointless, and making excuses rather than trying to actually face the fact 
that there is a problem.

So man up, guys. Face the problem, rather than say "well, it's staging", 
or "well, we can revert it". Neither of those really solve anything in the 
short run _or_ the long run.

			Linus
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