Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:54:03 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] drm request 3 |
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Stephane Marchesin wrote: > > In short, the "don't break user space interfaces" principle is making > user space code quality worse for everyone. And it makes our lives as > graphics developers pretty miserable actually
And _my_ point is that if you did a half-way decent job on versioning, you wouldn't be in the crappy situation you are now.
For chissake, the DRM versioning model is a total disaster. The reason you can never ever break user space interfaces is exactly because when you break them, X stops working.
What I suggested is to _keep_ a working model across different versions, so that you can get out of the rat-hole you are in now (and the rat-hole you put your users into, and the distributions).
It's simply _not_ acceptable to tie the X server and the kernel version so tightly together as the crazy DRM model does right now. It's not all that different from us requiring people to install a new glibc every once in a while, just because we added a new filesystem. Everybody understands that that would be totally insane.
Why does the X community not understand simple library versioning?
Linus
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