From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755900Ab0CEXug (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:50:36 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:48782 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755328Ab0CEXue (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:50:34 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: jI6Dk7qY0OrSQazqELQ82riXygUQicqoHUeAzjeBVYZt 1267833033 Message-ID: <4B9198C2.9080202@imap.cc> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:50:26 +0100 From: Tilman Schmidt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100205 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tytso@mit.edu, Corbin Simpson , Daniel Stone , David Miller , skeggsb@gmail.com, airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net, mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3 References: <20100305151754.GB2505@tempa> <20100305.072612.186421758.davem@davemloft.net> <20100305154009.GC2505@tempa> <20100305.074835.159078083.davem@davemloft.net> <20100305160434.GE2505@tempa> <20100305164615.GC6000@thunk.org> <20100305215106.GE6000@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20100305215106.GE6000@thunk.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 2010-03-05 22:51 schrieb tytso@mit.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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuRmMIACgkQQ3+did9BuFvPcgCfesxRGK/XabLxAEY143aDYwdN Z7EAnjAbZKyUutNfzl9enda05vJLSRDV =e26J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----