From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>,
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, 7 Aug 2004 15:48:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040807154808.D18510@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091885466.18408.13.camel@localhost.localdomain>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 02:31:07PM +0100
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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
Sorry, but the reason for the fbdev mess is that James is completely unable
to do proper project managment. The model works fine for every other kernel
subsystem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-07 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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
2004-08-07 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-08-07 14:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2004-08-05 23:54 ` Dave Airlie
2004-08-07 14:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
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