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

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Message-ID: <20100305123834.0d9c6277@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:38:34 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3

> The conclusion is crystal clear, breaking an ABI via a "flag day" 
> cleanup/feature/etc is:

Ingo go read the staging Kconfig. It's crystal clear, and lots of vendor
junk that is in there being cleaned up it would be *insane* to keep their
old APIs

See there's a bigger offence than breaking an ABI - its called not RTFM.

Alan
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