From: Alan Cox <a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:38:34 +0000
>> The conclusion is crystal clear, breaking an ABI via a "flag day" >> cleanup/feature/etc is: > > Ingo go read the staging Kconfig. It's crystal clear, and lots of vendor > junk that is in there being cleaned up it would be *insane* to keep their > old APIs > > See there's a bigger offence than breaking an ABI - its called not RTFM. All of this RTFM and what directory the noveau driver is sitting in is entirely irrelevant Alan. If it effects such a large number of people, which this noveau thing does, it's entirely relevant to everyone. And the way it's breaking and making kernel development difficult for so many people matters to us. It's about the tester base, and this breakage shrinks the tester base considerably. Or do you want the kernel tested by less people? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
