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    SubjectRe: [git pull] drm request 3


    On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Jesse Barnes wrote:
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    > Whoa, so breaking ABI in staging drivers isn't ok? Lots of other
    > staging drivers are shipped by distros with compatible userspaces, but I
    > thought the whole point of staging was to fix up ABIs before they
    > became mainstream and had backwards compat guarantees, meaning that
    > breakage was to be expected?

    If the staging driver isn't in common use, who cares?

    But this is a major driver, used by a major subsystem in a major
    distribution.

    It's not like Fedora-12 is some odd case. And it's not like nVidia
    graphics is unusual.

    Face it, nouveau is "staging" only in name.

    Linus


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