On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 13:30 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:43:33 +0100 > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > In updates, such things are actually much less likely to break, except > > when we rebase to a newer kernel -- and if you've kept your driver > > working in rawhide then it should work fine when we rebase the release > > to the newer kernel anyway. Even if not, we tend to be quite > > conservative about releasing new kernels anyway -- they end up in > > updates-testing for some time, and that gives you time to get it > > working. The urgent security fixes are usually relatively small and > > unlikely to break drivers. > > > > It's not something that scales hugely, but we don't _want_ it to. We > > should be sticking close to upstream, and not shipping drivers which > > aren't getting merged. > > Yeah that sounds reasonable. Any chance we could get a peep from Davej > and Cebbert on this? I think they should approve any individual driver or system which gets added. If they want to express disapproval of the whole concept, they can feel free to use a procmail filter to say "nah, sod off" to _every_ such request. :) -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
