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, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
