From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753463Ab0CFTax (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:30:53 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:58681 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752604Ab0CFTaw (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:30:52 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 11:28:16 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Sergio Monteiro Basto cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3 In-Reply-To: <1267902406.24025.50.camel@segulix> Message-ID: References: <1267889034.24025.4.camel@segulix> <1267902406.24025.50.camel@segulix> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 09:40 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Why are people making excuses for bad programming and bad technology? > > Is not bad technology is new technology, the API have to change faster , > unless you want wait 2 years until get "stable" . F*ck me, but people are being dense. With my suggestion, people could change the API _more_, because it wouldn't be as painful. This is not about "change the ABI or not". This is about "since you change the ABI, do it _well_, so that it doesn't hurt people as much". Linus