On Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:03 pm Stephane Marchesin wrote: > > As for the "new development model"... Things are actually worse than I > > thought. There are some fairly large differences between linux-core and > > upstream, some of which have been in linux-core for a long time. It's > > one thing to have an out-of-tree development process but another entirely > > to let stuff rot for months & years there. It just adds to the already > > huge set of driver combinations we have to worry about and support... > > How is doing merges preventing us from working on a single tree ? It's > two completely separate problems.
There are several problems, see the earlier thread "Adapt on_each_cpu" where we talked about the current dev process problems. > > So drm-next is all I care about anymore. I'm trying to sync the last > > couple of years worth of development to that tree so I can start ignoring > > linux-core entirely. It's just too disconnected from upstream Linux for > > me to worry about (note that this doesn't mean I don't care about BSD > > compat; I want to make sure sharing is still reasonably easy, but if > > anything I'd like the merges to go from drm-next -> linux-core rather > > than the other way around for my development). > > Ok, so to restate that clearly you'll break drivers that are not in > mainstream linux routinely because you don't really care. I think this is an overreaction to an RFC. If I had pushed this into DRM master, leaving several drivers broken I think there would be real cause for complaint. However, I haven't done that. Nor has this gone into the Linux tree, so things aren't out of sync, so let's keep this in perspective. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
