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

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Message-ID: <4B91428E.6070006@garzik.org>
Date:	Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:42:38 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Daniel Stone <daniel@...ishbar.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	skeggsb@...il.com, airlied@...ux.ie, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net, mingo@...e.hu,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3

On 03/05/2010 10:17 AM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:37:18AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> If it effects such a large number of people, which this noveau thing
>> does, it's entirely relevant to everyone.  And the way it's breaking
>> and making kernel development difficult for so many people matters to
>> us.
>
> Maybe the lesson to be learned from all this is, 'if the developers
> don't want something merged because they're not ready and forsee huge
> problems in the future, actually listen to them instead of blindly
> ramming it in regardless'? But maybe that's just me.

That particular horse left the barn when Fedora shipped nouveau in a 
stable release, not when Linus merged it into his tree.

	Jeff



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