From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.sf.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 2
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:06:17 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003021505000.3616@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1003022300320.4099@skynet.skynet.ie>
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> because it does nothing on anything except the laptops in question and on
> those it does nothing except add a control file in debugfs?
It's still code. And if the user didn't ask for it, it should damn well
not be there.
> So how am I supposed to indicate to distro vendors that something should
> be turned on? If you think that distro kernel maintainers really
> understand every config option that goes past, I've got a bridge.
User configurations is _not_ your job. Your job is to make sure that the
kernel works, and people who don't ask for new feaures don't get them.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-01 23:46 [git pull] drm request 2 Dave Airlie
2010-03-02 22:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-02 23:02 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-02 23:06 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-03-02 23:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-03 11:12 ` Thomas Backlund
2010-03-02 23:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-02 23:16 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-02 23:27 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-02 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-02 23:48 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-03 0:34 ` Linus Torvalds
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