> 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?
I think you miss a bigger picture ? If Fedora hadn't merged it then it wouldn't have gotten to the state of usability it had. If Fedora hadn't merged it then several hundred thousand users wouldn't have had useful working machines. So - do you want Linux used by a lot less people, and to have no Nvidia driver ? See - its all about viewpoints. Do you think screaming at people who did no wrong increases the kernel developer and testing base ? No I thought not. To be honest the big thing I object to here is certain people who should know better behaving like small children. Not just in the sense of throwing their toys around because mummy didn't buy them the right sweetie but in not thinking about how other people see the problem and their actions. - Fedora merged the stuff to make it work and to improve life for lots of users. Good intent, rational logical behaviour - Linus asked for it to be merged and was warned about the ABI. He did that for good, sound reasons. - The developers accepted the merge to staging so they could fix the ABI later, they made that clear - again all good sound intentions - The ABI change and clean up was done - again good sound intentions, rational behaviour - Linus then threw a tantrum. He's right there are issues about how user migration should be handled but he didn't need to go screaming at the DRM people (not their fault), Fedora (who had good sensible goals in what they did) or the Nouveau people (who told him what was going on well in advance and did exactly what was asked of them before) Firstly he's being hypocritical (he keeps saying he doesn't want to control distributions, he even refused to allow ext2 to be merged *until* Red Hat shipped it), he was told clearly, and staging is for unfixed ABIs. Secondly he's shouting at people who all did a right thing, which only produces bad feelings. All that was needed was a "Hey guys, I know its in staging but this is going to be a problem, can we either fix back compatibility or have some kind of migration policy and the tools so I can test it - otherwise I can't merge this" No blaming, no tantrums, no judgemental comments from a single viewpoint. A collection of good intentions produced a problem. It happens all the time, screaming and blaming may be how politicians sometimes behave but we can surely do better ? Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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