From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Stephane Marchesin <stephane.marchesin@gmail.com>,
dri-devel@lists.sf.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:27:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267745223.3849.4176.camel@thor.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003041507070.3751@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:19 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> What would happen if I changed DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL to 1 for the i915 driver?
Nothing. :) Only the major version is supposed to signify outright
incompatibility, the minor version signifies backwards compatibility
within the same major version, and the patchlevel has no impact on the
interface. All the other drivers are basically following this, only
nouveau is abusing the patchlevel as a major version for reasons beyond
me.
--
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Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephane Marchesin <stephane.marchesin@gmail.com>,
dri-devel@lists.sf.net
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:27:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267745223.3849.4176.camel@thor.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003041507070.3751@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:19 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> What would happen if I changed DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL to 1 for the i915 driver?
Nothing. :) Only the major version is supposed to signify outright
incompatibility, the minor version signifies backwards compatibility
within the same major version, and the patchlevel has no impact on the
interface. All the other drivers are basically following this, only
nouveau is abusing the patchlevel as a major version for reasons beyond
me.
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2010-03-02 23:56 [git pull] drm request 3 Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:27 ` Matt Turner
2010-03-04 18:27 ` Matt Turner
2010-03-04 18:36 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 18:39 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:56 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 18:56 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:25 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 20:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 22:06 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-05 0:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 0:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 0:28 ` Ben Skeggs
2010-03-05 0:28 ` Ben Skeggs
2010-03-05 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 0:56 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-03-05 1:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 1:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 1:16 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-03-05 1:16 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-03-05 1:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 1:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 1:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 1:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 1:28 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-05 1:28 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-05 5:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 5:22 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-05 5:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 5:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 5:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 5:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 5:22 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-05 5:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 0:56 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-03-05 1:19 ` Upstream first policy Kyle McMartin
2010-03-05 1:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 2:00 ` [git pull] drm request 3 Tony Luck
2010-03-05 2:00 ` Tony Luck
2010-03-05 20:34 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-03-05 20:34 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-03-05 6:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 6:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 7:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-03-05 7:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-03-05 7:17 ` "C. Bergström"
2010-03-05 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 15:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 15:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 7:17 ` "C. Bergström"
2010-03-05 7:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 7:58 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-05 7:58 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-05 8:16 ` Stephane Marchesin
2010-03-05 8:16 ` Stephane Marchesin
2010-03-05 10:00 ` Making Xorg easier to test (was Re: [git pull] drm request 3) Carlos R. Mafra
2010-03-05 10:00 ` Carlos R. Mafra
2010-03-05 12:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-03-05 12:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-03-05 15:22 ` Matt Turner
2010-03-05 15:41 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 15:41 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 15:49 ` Making Xorg easier to test David Miller
2010-03-05 16:03 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:03 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:06 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 16:06 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 17:50 ` Xavier Bestel
2010-03-05 17:50 ` Xavier Bestel
2010-03-05 17:54 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 17:54 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 18:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 18:05 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 18:05 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 18:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 15:49 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 15:22 ` Making Xorg easier to test (was Re: [git pull] drm request 3) Matt Turner
2010-03-05 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:11 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-08 8:57 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-08 8:57 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:11 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 16:26 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 16:26 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 13:55 ` [git pull] drm request 3 Luc Verhaegen
2010-03-05 13:55 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-03-05 16:21 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 16:21 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 7:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 12:38 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 14:37 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 14:37 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 14:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-03-05 14:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-03-05 18:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 18:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 15:11 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 15:11 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 15:17 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 15:17 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 15:26 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 15:26 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 15:40 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 15:48 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 16:02 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:02 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:05 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 17:58 ` Younes Manton
2010-03-05 17:58 ` Younes Manton
2010-03-05 16:05 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:23 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:23 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 17:04 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 17:04 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 17:10 ` "C. Bergström"
2010-03-05 17:19 ` tytso
2010-03-05 23:54 ` Garry Hurley
2010-03-05 17:19 ` tytso
2010-03-05 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:04 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 16:04 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 16:06 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 16:06 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 17:36 ` Jerome Glisse
2010-03-05 17:36 ` Jerome Glisse
2010-03-05 16:46 ` tytso
2010-03-05 16:46 ` tytso
2010-03-05 19:38 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-03-05 19:38 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-03-05 21:01 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-03-05 21:01 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-03-05 21:51 ` tytso
[not found] ` <e7bd23c31003051452i117eadc1m5284ac5d14b6465d@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-05 22:59 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-03-05 23:50 ` Tilman Schmidt
2010-03-05 23:50 ` Tilman Schmidt
2010-03-05 21:51 ` tytso
2010-03-05 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <hmra63$898$1@xyzzy.farnsworth.org>
2010-03-06 6:17 ` Dale Farnsworth
2010-03-06 17:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-03-06 17:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-03-05 15:48 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 15:56 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-05 16:13 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:13 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:38 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:38 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 20:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-03-05 20:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-03-05 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:25 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-05 16:25 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-05 15:56 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-05 15:40 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 15:42 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 15:42 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 17:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-03-05 19:11 ` Justin P. mattock
2010-03-05 19:11 ` Justin P. mattock
2010-03-05 17:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-03-05 12:38 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-04 22:06 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 19:25 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 19:33 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 19:33 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 19:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:39 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:36 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 18:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 19:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 20:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 20:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 20:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 20:57 ` Stephane Marchesin
2010-03-04 20:57 ` Stephane Marchesin
2010-03-04 22:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 23:03 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 23:27 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
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2010-03-05 0:24 ` Ed Tomlinson
2010-03-05 0:24 ` Ed Tomlinson
2010-03-05 0:24 ` Kyle McMartin
2010-03-05 0:24 ` Kyle McMartin
2010-03-04 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 23:28 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 23:28 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 23:03 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 23:05 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 23:05 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 12:26 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 12:26 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-04 22:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 19:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 22:28 ` Adam Jackson
2010-03-04 22:28 ` Adam Jackson
2010-03-04 23:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 23:14 ` Stephane Marchesin
2010-03-04 23:14 ` Stephane Marchesin
2010-03-05 12:29 ` Alan Cox
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2010-03-05 16:18 ` Adam Jackson
2010-03-05 16:18 ` Adam Jackson
2010-03-04 23:03 ` Linus Torvalds
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