Can we stop the stupid already? from what I can see nobody that is shipping a real driver that Linux distros want is able to work with the current system.
By this I mean only vmware are seeing value in it and we are being held hostage by it. Here's the thing you should *always* be working on master, *always*. I don't care if you are shipping 7.7 in a product, you get a bug report, reproduce it on master fix it on master, cherry-pick it back. This pulling branches into master is insane, and it means that distros are not able to ship useful code from the 7.8 branch as I discovered this morning because none of intel/radeon/nouveau driver developers are working on 7.8 branch, and lots of fixes are piled up in master for them, that we can't cherry-pick now because of the stupid policy. The thing is working on the stable branch is fine if you live in a bubble and there is no chance that anyone might have fixed your bugs already in master, but when we have drivers with a community around them and maintainers, you can't just hide in 7.8 branch and ignore the fact that someone else could quite literally have fixed it in master already and didn't know or care about 7.8 or wasn't sure of its suitability. At this point I'm tempted to just git diff radeon between 7.8 and master and drop the diff into 7.8 and leaving for the weekend. Dave. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
