From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754605Ab0CEQFA (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:05:00 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34104 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752455Ab0CEQE6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:04:58 -0500 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:05:16 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20100305.080516.180132092.davem@davemloft.net> To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: daniel@fooishbar.org, 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 Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20100305160217.663413eb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20100305154009.GC2505@tempa> <20100305.074835.159078083.davem@davemloft.net> <20100305160217.663413eb@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 16:02:17 +0000 >> You can't unleash something like this on a userbase of this magnitude >> and then throw your hands up in the air and say "I'm not willing to >> support this in a reasonable way." > > Not to belabour the obvious - they didn't. Linus ordered them to merge it. And I'm arguing not merging it upstream would be like saying the same thing. >> We're better than that. > > If you consider the problem is with the Fedora kernel team decision to > merge it into Fedora in the first place For the second time Alan, I don't. I think Fedora should have merged it. I think it should be upstream. And I think the API bustage needs to be avoided.