On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 13:30 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:43:33 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)infradead.org> wrote:
> In updates, such things are actually much less likely to break, except
> when we rebase to a newer kernel -- and if you've kept your driver
> working in rawhide then it should work fine when we rebase the release
> to the newer kernel anyway. Even if not, we tend to be quite
> conservative about releasing new kernels anyway -- they end up in
> updates-testing for some time, and that gives you time to get it
> working. The urgent security fixes are usually relatively small and
> unlikely to break drivers.
>
> It's not something that scales hugely, but we don't _want_ it to. We
> should be sticking close to upstream, and not shipping drivers which
> aren't getting merged.
Yeah that sounds reasonable. Any chance we could get a peep from Davej
and Cebbert on this?
I think they should approve any individual driver or system which gets
added.
If they want to express disapproval of the whole concept, they can feel
free to use a procmail filter to say "nah, sod off" to _every_ such
request. :)
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