On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 20:54 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 18:54:40 +0100, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
>
> > Yes, but the positive side is that distros using a standard/old (about
> > a year) kernel don't need to crawl the old libdrm repo and find the
> > right version (in your case they have to do this ° backport stuff) ...
> > I think that plus the fact that it makes development and merging
> > simpler is just a reason to do it.
> >
> Why would they have to do that? Newer libdrms should stay compatible
> with older kernels...
And vice-versa. Some people install newer kernels just to have a newer
driver for some particular hardware, or a bugfix somewhere. If this
breaks 3D, many modern interfaces won't work (these days they are
compiz, gnome-shell, or other clutter-based interface).
Breaking things by upgrading a kernel is frowned upon on LKML :)
Xav
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