From: Kyle M. <ky...@mc...> - 2009-12-11 02:08:48
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:32:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > "patches welcome" > > The problem is that I have never even heard a Red Hat or Fedora person > actually acknoledge that yes, they should be trying to upstream it. > > Have Red Hat and Fedora just decided that "upstream first" simply doesn't > matter any more? Because quite frankly, that was kind of the feeling I > came away with from the Kernel summit. > Well, given that none of the Fedora kernel people were able to attend this year for a variety of reasons, this is an interesting revelation to me, I wasn't aware I thought this. I, for one, would very much like nouveau to be upstream. It would certainly make my life easier not having to worry about subtlely breaking graphics adapters I can't test whenever we rebase to new git changes in the DRM. Thankfully Ben and Dave have been ninja at dealing with it, otherwise I probably would have punted it by now. > It's like they _want_ to keep it internal. > regards, Kyle |