From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753399Ab0FGUlm (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2010 16:41:42 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:57388 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751406Ab0FGUll convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2010 16:41:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EtPNiNfBN83WqZQznBdF1X5gkwi69ZvY7GniWAwdY0PW68XnfjyGekj6K1uo8zXzeD OR9DrvgVt2geX64sBZnVzYgLdeMHnyX4we9YO5Xkpg04aUAaEqvufnJEAp6APQPggF/7 uq8t6zfBpYvYJPy4Fh0MvLjK8sY70wwQoQQMU= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 06:41:40 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [git pull] drm fixes From: Dave Airlie To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Dave Airlie , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Dave Airlie wrote: >>> >>> 3 regressions fixes, one radeon loading on IGP, one i865 loading, one and >>> an evergreen userspace interaction workaround. >> >> This is: >> >>         26 files changed, 372 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-) >> >> and there are apparently several reports of known problems (the problem >> with modesetting) that isn't even addressed. > > Okay, not sure what the addressed regression you are talking about, do > you want  regression fixes early like you always say or do you want to > wait until I have every regression reported fixes before I send a pull > request? Oh the one where I said to the reporter, I've reproduced this, and will fix it tomorrow when I have proper time and access to my test machine? I didn't think writing a fix in the 5 mins before I left the test machine and sending it you was acceptable, again can you maintain some semblance of consistency across maintainers/releases? Like I'm happy if you really enforce this no features idea, I'd be really happy if you did it every release since it makes it a lot easier to push back to submaintainers if you can point at Linus not pulling features from people. However its really hard to push back on submaintainers and one of the reasons Eric talks to you direct after rc1, when you can be very inconsistent about what you pull and from whom. Like I can tell someone this isn't going in this release, then you'll pull something uglier from someone else in -rc3 and I end up looking like stupid because I said there was no hope of getting anything in. Consistency is something that would make everyone's life easier, across all releases and all maintainers. Dave.