Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= --== ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
