Re: [git pull] drm request 3

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Mar 05 2010 - 11:05:05 EST


From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:02:17 +0000

>> You can't unleash something like this on a userbase of this magnitude
>> and then throw your hands up in the air and say "I'm not willing to
>> support this in a reasonable way."
>
> Not to belabour the obvious - they didn't. Linus ordered them to merge it.

And I'm arguing not merging it upstream would be like saying
the same thing.

>> We're better than that.
>
> If you consider the problem is with the Fedora kernel team decision to
> merge it into Fedora in the first place

For the second time Alan, I don't.

I think Fedora should have merged it.

I think it should be upstream.

And I think the API bustage needs to be avoided.

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