Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Mar 2010 17:38:51 -0500 | From | tytso@mit ... | Subject | Re: [git pull] drm request 3 |
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On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:52:35PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > They want the benefits of lots of testers, without wanting to be > > courteous to those testers. > > Except for the small rather important detail that the Nouveau developers > didn't ask for it to be merged in the first place. >
*Someone* on the Red Hat/Fedora team made the decision to make it available on a very popular distribution to get more testing. And they did it without putting in the necessary versioning so that kernel testers could test upstream kernels. That, in my book, is an anti-social thing to do. Fedora isn't alone, of course; Ubuntu does this as well, and worse yet, with proprietary binary drivers. But just because Ubuntu does something worse, doesn't mean that Fedora should get a free pass for what they did.
- Ted
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