Re: [git pull] drm request 3

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Mar 06 2010 - 14:30:58 EST




On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 09:40 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Why are people making excuses for bad programming and bad technology?
>
> Is not bad technology is new technology, the API have to change faster ,
> unless you want wait 2 years until get "stable" .

F*ck me, but people are being dense.

With my suggestion, people could change the API _more_, because it
wouldn't be as painful.

This is not about "change the ABI or not". This is about "since you change
the ABI, do it _well_, so that it doesn't hurt people as much".

Linus
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