Re: [git pull] drm - fixes + radeon KMS (part 2)

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jun 16 2009 - 17:20:36 EST


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:56:31AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Linus
> Torvalds<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>
> >> Linus can you pull this tree?
> >
> > I hate pulling trees when I know there are _known_ bugs.
> >
> > Even during the merge window. The rest of the -rc series is for fixing up
> > bugs, yes, but not bugs that were introduced on purpose.
> >
>
> It only happens if the user enable staging drivers, and I suspect staging
> has much worse bugs, but okay I'll put the initcall fix into the tree
> and send you another pull request.

Note, distros enable the staging tree to pick up drivers they were
previously including anyway. So that is quite a large userbase :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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