Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:46:05 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking |
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> - but as a special case, we relax that for totally new drivers (and that > includes things like just adding a new PCI or USB ID's to old drivers), > because (a) it can't really regress
It in fact depends on your definition of regression really :)
If we merge a buggy driver that hangs the user's machine when loaded, well ... before the driver has been merged, the machine had been booting well, just some hardware was not functioning at all. After this late driver merge, the driver gets autoloaded upon boot and crashes the machine. Users will probably see this as a regression.
This doesn't mean that I am against merging new drivers as aggressively as possible, I just wanted to point out that it might bring actual regressions to users.
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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