Re: Elaboration on "Equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree"

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>> Who are these "people" that you are trying to convince?
> 
> OK small silly example is convincing distributions it may be a good
> idea to carry linux-next kernel packages as options to users to
> hopefully down the road reduce the delta between what they carry and
> what is actually upstream.

Distros would do their users a bigger favour if they didn't just dump a
random new driver into their kernel package, but if they instead (or in
addition) support the process to get new drivers into the mainline.

It's a favour to their users because maintenance in mainline generally
means better quality.  (Less drivers which break suspend/resume etc. pp.).

It's also a favour to themselves because the maintenance of their kernel
as a whole will cost less if it is a stabilized derivative of the
mainline instead of an unstable (and merely potential) predecessor of
the mainline.
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Stefan Richter
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