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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:55:57 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.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, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > When you asked that nouveau was merged, people explicitly told you that > the reason it hadn't been was because the interface was unstable and > userspace would break. You asked that it be merged anyway, and now > you're unhappy because the interface has changed and userspace has > broken? How hard is it to understand basic kernel development rules? Nouveau was in Fedora-12. In fact, it was in Fedora-11 too afaik. People can hide behind all the "staging" and "I asked for it" things they like, but that doesn't change simple basic facts: distros should make sure drivers get merged up-stream, and people end up depending on them. Btw, I'm hoping some of this pain goes away for me, because I expect to get rid of the shitty nVidia card reasonably soon. The fact that my main box had a power supply that literally _required_ a power-sucking-piece- of-sh*t-graphics card has been painful to me. But none of that changes my basic objections. I didn't ask for nouveau to be merged as staging - I asked it to be merged because a major distro uses it. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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