On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 04:31:02PM -0400, David Airlie wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Greg KH" <[email protected]> > > To: "Jakob Bornecrantz" <[email protected]>, "Dave Airlie" > > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > Sent: Saturday, 22 September, 2012 4:35:43 AM > > Subject: Re: Patch Upstream: vmwgfx: add dumb ioctl support > > > > Why is the patch below marked for the -stable tree? It looks to add > > a > > new feature, not fix an existing problem. Or am I missing something? > > Its mainly an attempt to stop a userspace mess from growing, it just > bring vmwgfx in line with other drivers, so the next mesa release can > work with wayland without growing an insane userspace dependency. > > So it would be good to have it in stable, as it would be nice if > distros could pick it up, but no major problems if not.
Ok, that seems sane, I'll pick it up, thanks for explaining it. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
