linux-kernel - Re: Making Xorg easier to test (was Re: [git pull] drm request 3)

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Message-ID: <b4198de61003050722s54478b08q31c4eb7fd892fb90@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:22:27 -0500
From:	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
To:	"Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@...il.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Making Xorg easier to test (was Re: [git pull] drm request 3)

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@...il.com> wrote:
> Why can't there be a 'Linus Torvalds' for Xorg accepting patches from various
> maintainers and keeping the whole thing tied up? Why can't it mimic the
> 'make menuconfig' way of selecting what to compile to have the guarantee that
> the whole thing will simply work nicely together?

You must not follow X development at all. His name is Keith Packard.

Matt Turner
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