From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753868Ab0CEPWa (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:22:30 -0500 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:49722 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753731Ab0CEPW2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:22:28 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=CxEcIyBq3qv8iq2y4i5E688yGf+X/L4d2Cb/1LYI25h0rKqtu3CJwq2Xy5DEFlEcCh TNxsUDFfBuWw5P1bSQGEdhmoNosI0APfck8IyzaLSKnwqn1eWpShl4cgZrh9Db0hlISZ NSTNe8dmNL8dRHnp6Ba8A6BQvRllM+YN/aRG0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100305100030.GA4970@Pilar.aei.mpg.de> References: <20100304105624.70fe845e@jbarnes-piketon> <21d7e9971003041125x1aee3b3ew1e407ca6695e10fc@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e9971003041406n53d9cae0h53374abf3dca494e@mail.gmail.com> <1267748927.3496.6.camel@nisroch> <20100305064955.GA6453@elte.hu> <84144f021003042306w2e017efbva2be364c1c4980a7@mail.gmail.com> <20100305074407.GC19703@elte.hu> <20100305100030.GA4970@Pilar.aei.mpg.de> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:22:27 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Making Xorg easier to test (was Re: [git pull] drm request 3) From: Matt Turner To: "Carlos R. Mafra" Cc: Ingo Molnar , Ben Skeggs , Dave Airlie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesse Barnes , Pekka Enberg , dri-devel@lists.sf.net, Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > Why can't there be a 'Linus Torvalds' for Xorg accepting patches from various > maintainers and keeping the whole thing tied up? Why can't it mimic the > 'make menuconfig' way of selecting what to compile to have the guarantee that > the whole thing will simply work nicely together? You must not follow X development at all. His name is Keith Packard. Matt Turner