On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I don't think I was very clear in what I meant about "carrying linux-next kernel packages as an option". What I meant was carrying it just as an option for those users who want to test bleeding edge without compiling their own linux-next, _not_ to merge linux-next things into their own default kernel release and shove it down users throats. Luis -- 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
