From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:53:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100304195302.GA24856@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003041131490.3751@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:41:22AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Is there some model of versioning inside X _except_ for the "it won't
> work" kind of thing? Can we fix this going forward, so that you can have
> _real_ versioning (ie multiple installed versions of a libdrm, the way you
> can have concurrently multiple installed versions of glibc?)
There isn't. I don't think there's any intrinsic difficulty in doing so,
other than the buildsystems and X's own unstable driver API.
> IOW, we have a real technical problem here. Are you just going to continue
> to make excuses about it?
I'm not questioning the fact that it would be preferable to provide
compatibility. But that compatibility doesn't come for free - someone
has to implement it, and when your developer base is almost entirely
made up of people who are doing this because they find it fun and
interesting rather than because they're paid to, who's going to do it
and what functionality is going to be delayed as a result?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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Thread overview: 147+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-02 23:56 [git pull] drm request 3 Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
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 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 0:28 ` Ben Skeggs
2010-03-05 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 0:56 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-03-05 1:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 1:16 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-03-05 1:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 1:20 ` Linus Torvalds
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 5:42 ` Linus Torvalds
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 20:34 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-03-05 6:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 7:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-03-05 7:17 ` "C. Bergström"
2010-03-05 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 15:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 7:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 7:58 ` Dave Airlie
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 12:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-03-05 15:22 ` Matt Turner
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 16:06 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 17:50 ` Xavier Bestel
2010-03-05 17:54 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 18:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 18:05 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 15:53 ` Making Xorg easier to test (was Re: [git pull] drm request 3) Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:11 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-08 8:57 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 16:26 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 13:55 ` [git pull] drm request 3 Luc Verhaegen
2010-03-05 16:21 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 12:38 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 14:37 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 14:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-03-05 18:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-05 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 15:11 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 15:17 ` Daniel Stone
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 16:05 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 17:58 ` Younes Manton
2010-03-05 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:23 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 17:04 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 17:19 ` tytso
2010-03-05 16:04 ` Daniel Stone
2010-03-05 16:06 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 17:36 ` Jerome Glisse
2010-03-05 16:46 ` tytso
2010-03-05 19:38 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-03-05 21:01 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-03-05 21:51 ` tytso
2010-03-05 23:50 ` Tilman Schmidt
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
2010-03-05 15:56 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-05 16:13 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 16:38 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 20:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-03-05 16:25 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-05 15:42 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 17:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-03-05 19:11 ` Justin P. mattock
2010-03-04 19:33 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 19:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-04 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:53 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-03-04 20:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 20:46 ` Matthew Garrett
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 23:27 ` Michel Dänzer
2010-03-04 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 23:35 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 23:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 0:24 ` Ed Tomlinson
2010-03-05 0:24 ` Kyle McMartin
2010-03-04 23:28 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 23:05 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-05 12:26 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-04 22:28 ` Adam Jackson
2010-03-04 23:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 23:14 ` Stephane Marchesin
2010-03-05 12:29 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 16:18 ` Adam Jackson
2010-03-04 19:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-03-04 22:18 ` Adam Jackson
2010-03-04 22:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-03-04 22:59 ` Adam Jackson
2010-03-05 11:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-03-05 15:46 ` Adam Jackson
2010-03-05 1:47 ` Robert Hancock
2010-03-05 12:21 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 19:30 ` Eric Anholt
2010-03-05 20:39 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-06 15:23 ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2010-03-06 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-06 19:06 ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2010-03-06 19:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-06 20:49 ` tytso
2010-03-06 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-06 22:38 ` tytso
2010-03-04 21:21 ` Maarten Maathuis
2010-03-04 21:22 ` Maarten Maathuis
2010-03-04 21:27 ` Maarten Maathuis
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2010-03-05 22:18 Jonas Ritz
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