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

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Date:	Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:50:26 +0100
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	tytso@....edu, Corbin Simpson <mostawesomedude@...il.com>,
	Daniel Stone <daniel@...ishbar.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, 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, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3

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Am 2010-03-05 22:51 schrieb tytso@....edu:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:38:46AM -0800, Corbin Simpson wrote:
>> If distros want to run weird experiments on their users, let them!
>> Sure, sometimes bad things happen, but sometimes good things happen
>> too. ConsoleKit, DeviceKit, HAL, NetworkManager, KMS, yaird, dracut,
>> Plymouth, the list goes on and on.
> 
> So what distro would you recommend for people who want to do kernel
> development, do kernel testing, and do kernel bisects to help us find
> bugs?
> 
> Are you basically saying, "Kernel people shouldn't use Fedora"?  So
> what should we use instead?

It's been "Kernel people shouldn't use Nvidia" ever since I started
tinkering with device drivers for Linux. Of course there's hope that
nouveau will one day change that, but we're obviously not quite there yet.

Jm2c
Tilman

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