Hi all, bringing backports to a new version of linux next is a much bigger task now that we have lots of more drivers we backport, especially the GPU driver need a big effort to be backported. My rough estimation is that the GPU driver are taking as much efforts as the wireless drivers and subsystem to be maintained, thereby the wireless driver are supported on much older kernel versions. There is little code shared between the wireless and the GPU drivers expect the build system. I tried to use the Intel i915 driver on my device with kernel 3.5 and it did not worked (some in kernel errors) and when using kernel 3.7 it also failed (kernel oops). Who uses the GPU drivers form backports? Which GPU driver were successfully runtime tested by anyone in the last few months? As we do not have that big constant man power I am for removing the GPU drivers to make it easier to add support for a new linux next versions. Most of the users are using backports to get a recent wireless driver for their desktop Linux or their (old) Linux on an embedded device. Hauke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
