On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Stephane Marchesin wrote: >> >> In short, the "don't break user space interfaces" principle is making >> user space code quality worse for everyone. And it makes our lives as >> graphics developers pretty miserable actually > > And _my_ point is that if you did a half-way decent job on versioning, you > wouldn't be in the crappy situation you are now. > > For chissake, the DRM versioning model is a total disaster. The reason you > can never ever break user space interfaces is exactly because when you > break them, X stops working.
Stop aligning DRM versioning with nouveau versioning. This isn't a generic problem with DRM, we've supported versioning interfaces for years and have broken them maybe once. > What I suggested is to _keep_ a working model across different versions, > so that you can get out of the rat-hole you are in now (and the rat-hole > you put your users into, and the distributions). > > It's simply _not_ acceptable to tie the X server and the kernel version so > tightly together as the crazy DRM model does right now. It's not all that > different from us requiring people to install a new glibc every once in a > while, just because we added a new filesystem. Everybody understands that > that would be totally insane. > > Why does the X community not understand simple library versioning? Its nouveau project not X not DRM, stop generalising the situation. Dave. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
