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From: Linus Torvalds on 2 Mar 2010 18:50 On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Dave Airlie wrote: > > Did I mention that driver is in STAGING? Staging is for _improving_ the quality of the drivers, not for making it worse. We still very much have quality standards. The staging tree is for things to get in that don't quite _reach_ the standards we expect, but it's not a blanket excuse for not testing things. And yes, I expect that stuff can be a bit rough during the merge window, after all, the whole point is that we can fix things up. But quite frankly, if _I_ find problems on the few machines I personally build and test on, then what does that say about the bigger picture? IOW, I refuse to pull code that doesn't even work for me. If I did, where would we end up? What do you think should be my minimal quality requirements, if "Oh, it doesn't even build for me" is too much to ask for? So if I find code that doesn't work, I'm not going to just say "whatever". I'm going to reject it. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Thomas Backlund on 3 Mar 2010 06:20
03.03.2010 01:02, Dave Airlie skrev: >>> x86 after PPC (I think I just validated Ingo). >> >> Why is VGA_SWITCHEROO enabled by default? > > because it does nothing on anything except the laptops in question and on > those it does nothing except add a control file in debugfs? > > So how am I supposed to indicate to distro vendors that something should > be turned on? If you think that distro kernel maintainers really > understand every config option that goes past, I've got a bridge. > Yep. If the help-text for a new config option is well written, a kernel maintainer will have no problem deciding what to do. (the help text for the config in question is wery well written, thanks to whoever wrote that) And this specific option/feature is already requested by endusers, so no maintainer will be able to "miss it" :-) -- Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |