From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753363Ab0CEQhS (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:37:18 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:51693 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752194Ab0CEQhQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:37:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:38:17 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Luca Barbieri , Daniel Stone , David Miller , skeggsb@gmail.com, airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3 Message-ID: <20100305163817.143ee6f5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20100305123834.0d9c6277@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100305.063718.211238119.davem@davemloft.net> <20100305151754.GB2505@tempa> <20100305.072612.186421758.davem@davemloft.net> <20100305154009.GC2505@tempa> <20100305161311.656711e0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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 > The thing I objected to, in the VERY BEGINNING in this thread, i the fact > that the thing was done in such a way that it's basically impossible to > support the old/new ABI at all! What did you expect them to do. They said when you first forced a merge that they would do this. They have no contract that I am aware of to deliver you compatibility, in fact quite the reverse they said they wouldn't be. Then you attribute to malice what was done as a cleanup by people who've pointedly never to commited to a constant API yet "That commit seems to _on_purpose_ try to avoid at all cost being compatible." Great way to make friends. Alan