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

Greg KH
2008-02-14T20:35:21Z

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,

greg k-h