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    SubjectRe: Elaboration on "Equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree"
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    On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Stefan Richter
    <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
    > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
    >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
    >>> Who are these "people" that you are trying to convince?
    >>
    >> OK small silly example is convincing distributions it may be a good
    >> idea to carry linux-next kernel packages as options to users to
    >> hopefully down the road reduce the delta between what they carry and
    >> what is actually upstream.
    >
    > Distros would do their users a bigger favour if they didn't just dump a
    > random new driver into their kernel package, but if they instead (or in
    > addition) support the process to get new drivers into the mainline.
    >
    > It's a favour to their users because maintenance in mainline generally
    > means better quality.  (Less drivers which break suspend/resume etc. pp.).
    >
    > It's also a favour to themselves because the maintenance of their kernel
    > as a whole will cost less if it is a stabilized derivative of the
    > mainline instead of an unstable (and merely potential) predecessor of
    > the mainline.

    I don't think I was very clear in what I meant about "carrying
    linux-next kernel packages as an option". What I meant was carrying it
    just as an option for those users who want to test bleeding edge
    without compiling their own linux-next, _not_ to merge linux-next
    things into their own default kernel release and shove it down users
    throats.

    Luis
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