f15 2.6.39 rebase

[Michał Piotrowski]

W dniu 30 czerwca 2011 20:58 użytkownik Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> napisał:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 08:50:17PM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > 2011/6/30 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>:
>  > > I've just pushed a f15-2.6.39 branch which contains a work in progress rebase.
>  > > The only thing that I'm really concerned about in this right now is X regressions.
>  > > We had a drm-next backport to .38 and moving that to .39 turned up a ton of rejects.
>  > > I fixed up a few by hand, but the resulting compile failures made my head hurt, so
>  > > I've mostly left them disabled.  If the nouveau/intel drm dudes could look over
>  > > that branch and fix up whatever is necessary, we can look at getting this out
>  > > to people soon.
>  > >
>  > > (looking ahead, after its release pushing 3.0.x as 2.6.40 is probably going to
>  > >  happen,
>  >
>  > I ask out of curiosity - why 2.6.40? Is it a big problem to run 3.0 on F15?
>
> A lot of broken software is assuming version numbers are 2.6.x. We could push a load
> of userspace packages to fix it, but that's just the stuff we control. 3rd party add-ons
> would break for no good reason.
>
> This deviates from what upstream calls it, but it's just a number, and not breaking
> existing code in an update is more important here.

Of course you are absolutely right at this point :)

Thanks for your answer.

>  For f16 of course, we'll make
> the 3.0 transition, because moving to a new release has differing expectations,
> and by the time it ships, hopefully everything that cares will be fixed.
>
>        Dave
>



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