Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Gene Heskett
2008-02-14T20:43:53Z

On Thursday 14 February 2008, Greg KH wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:32:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> >And this is where "process" really matters. Making sure people don't get
>> >too frustrated about the constant grind.
>>
>> One of the problems caused by this 'grind' is being locked out of using
>> 3rd party closed drivers until the vendor decides its stable enough to
>> make the effort to update their binary blobs to match the newer functions.
>>
>> Nvidia vs 2.6.25-rc1 being a case in point, and they (nvidia) are
>> appearing to indicate its not a problem until some distro actually ships a
>> kernel with the changes that broke it. That could be months or even a
>> year plus.
>
>How about "weeks". Both Fedora and openSUSE's next release is going to
>be based on 2.6.25, and the first round of -rc1 kernels should be
>showing up in their trees in a few days. So for this instance, I think
>you will be fine :)
>
>thanks,

That is good news, thanks Greg.

>
>greg k-h

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