Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:32:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [...]
> >And this is where "process" really matters. Making sure people don't get
> >too frustrated about the constant grind.
> 
> One of the problems caused by this 'grind' is being locked out of using 3rd 
> party closed drivers until the vendor decides its stable enough to make the 
> effort to update their binary blobs to match the newer functions.
> 
> Nvidia vs 2.6.25-rc1 being a case in point, and they (nvidia) are appearing to 
> indicate its not a problem until some distro actually ships a kernel with the 
> changes that broke it.  That could be months or even a year plus.

How about "weeks".  Both Fedora and openSUSE's next release is going to
be based on 2.6.25, and the first round of -rc1 kernels should be
showing up in their trees in a few days.  So for this instance, I think
you will be fine :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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