On Thursday 14 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: >On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:32:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> [...] >> >> >And this is where "process" really matters. Making sure people don't get >> >too frustrated about the constant grind. >> >> One of the problems caused by this 'grind' is being locked out of using >> 3rd party closed drivers until the vendor decides its stable enough to >> make the effort to update their binary blobs to match the newer functions. >> >> Nvidia vs 2.6.25-rc1 being a case in point, and they (nvidia) are >> appearing to indicate its not a problem until some distro actually ships a >> kernel with the changes that broke it. That could be months or even a >> year plus. > >How about "weeks". Both Fedora and openSUSE's next release is going to >be based on 2.6.25, and the first round of -rc1 kernels should be >showing up in their trees in a few days. So for this instance, I think >you will be fine :) > >thanks, That is good news, thanks Greg. > >greg k-h -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) There's small choice in rotten apples. -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
