From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754151Ab0CEQBQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:01:16 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:54109 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753931Ab0CEQBP (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:01:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:02:17 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: David Miller Cc: daniel@fooishbar.org, skeggsb@gmail.com, airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net, mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3 Message-ID: <20100305160217.663413eb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100305.074835.159078083.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100305151754.GB2505@tempa> <20100305.072612.186421758.davem@davemloft.net> <20100305154009.GC2505@tempa> <20100305.074835.159078083.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.18.6; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > You can't unleash something like this on a userbase of this magnitude > and then throw your hands up in the air and say "I'm not willing to > support this in a reasonable way." Not to belabour the obvious - they didn't. Linus ordered them to merge it. > We're better than that. If you consider the problem is with the Fedora kernel team decision to merge it into Fedora in the first place, perhaps you should have an internal Red Hat discussion about it with the people who made that decision - who I suspect see it differently. Either way the Nouveau developers don't control Fedora packaging policy, in fact the GPL licence specially ensures the control is not theirs. Alan