On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, I do like generalizing. :-) I think there is a cyclical > thing in FOSS, where you have some legacy thing that works 80%, and > upstream decides to get that last 20% it requires a major rewrite. They > expect it to get to 90-95%, so distros adopt it, but when the dust > settles it works at just 85%... > > ...and unfortunately the 15% it doesn't cover is different than the 20% > the legacy system didn't cover, and that 15% is rightfully pissed that > they are seeing a regression when things worked so well before.
OTOH hand this means that the drivers together cover more than 85%. Would it perhaps be worth making both drivers easily available on the same kernel? I guess ideally we would scan the CVS automatically compiling each module, and identify the exact revision that caused the regression. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
