From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
Cc: Keith Whitwell <keith@tungstengraphics.com>,
Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
"DRI developer's list" <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DRM function pointer work..
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:31:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091885466.18408.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040806171641.14189.qmail@web14928.mail.yahoo.com>
On Gwe, 2004-08-06 at 18:16, Jon Smirl wrote:
> fbdev is in exactly this model and it isn't causing anyone problems.
> The simple rule is that if you want to upgrade fbdev past the current
> version you have to do it in entirety. You do that for fbdev but
> pulling bk://fbdev.bkbits.net/. But Joe user doesn't do that, that is
> something only developers do.
And thats one of the big reasons its such a mess and doesn't work out.
Nobody is testing or reviewing it until some huge "merge point" occurs
at which point you run the risk of people saying "Actually your design
sucks", or in the 2.6 case finding out too late so that there is a patch
kit to upgrade your 2.6 to the 2.4 console driver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-07 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20040806024907.13024.qmail@web14923.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-08-06 16:32 ` DRM function pointer work Ian Romanick
2004-08-06 16:54 ` Keith Whitwell
2004-08-06 17:16 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-06 17:20 ` Keith Whitwell
2004-08-06 17:46 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-07 22:42 ` Dave Jones
2004-08-06 17:24 ` Keith Whitwell
2004-08-06 17:48 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-07 0:11 ` Dave Airlie
2004-08-07 14:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-07 13:31 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-07 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-07 14:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
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[not found] ` <41128B90.5070702@us.ibm.com>
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[not found] ` <4112C09B.1070603@us.ibm.com>
2004-08-05 23:54 ` Dave Airlie
2004-08-07 14:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
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