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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003041047400.3751@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:51:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
cc:	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, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:36:55 -0800
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:
> > Yes Dave probably should have mentioned it in his pull request, but
> > that doesn't seem to be a good reason not to pull imo...
> 
> And now I see Dave did mention this, so what gives.  Guidance please.

Yeah, it's in the first one. My bad. I didn't notice, because that one got 
cancelled for other reasons and never even tested.

That doesn't change the simple basic issue: how are people with Fedora-12 
going to test any kernel out now? And are there libdrm versions that can 
handle _both_ cases, so that people can bisect things? IOW, even if you 
have a new libdrm, will it then work with the _old_ kernel too?

Backwards compatibility is really important.

		Linus
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