From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753609Ab0CEPLV (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:11:21 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45594 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753367Ab0CEPLU (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:11:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:11:39 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20100305.071139.27008118.davem@davemloft.net> To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: mingo@elte.hu, skeggsb@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, airlied@gmail.com, airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20100305150934.0c0f83ef@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20100305123834.0d9c6277@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100305.063718.211238119.davem@davemloft.net> <20100305150934.0c0f83ef@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alan Cox Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:09:34 +0000 > I think you miss a bigger picture ? > > If Fedora hadn't merged it then it wouldn't have gotten to the state of > usability it had. If Fedora hadn't merged it then several hundred > thousand users wouldn't have had useful working machines. I think Fedora were right to merge it, and I think it was proper to merge it into the upstream kernel. But I also think the large size of that userbase should have been respected by "doing the right thing" here, and that means not making it so hard for Fedora users to use upstream kernels out of the box. Making the "sandbox" claim cuts both ways Alan.