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Of course not, the maintainers will accept a well thought out series of patches that each make one small logical change towards the better interface. And yes -
by brongondwana 10y ago
Of course not, the maintainers will accept a well thought out series of patches that each make one small logical change towards the better interface.
And yes - who else is supposed to fix all the regressions caused by changes that AMD wants? Volunteers who would rather work on something else? If you want a change, you get to support the regressions - and if AMD's work gets merged, then anyone ELSE who wants to make a change in that page needs to support AMD's regressions.
Hence wanting to make sure that the changes from AMD are manageable and flexible enough to allow further changes.
- wolfgke 10y ago> If you want a change, you get to support the regressions And what about a change to a stable internal kernel API, which the kernel developers refuse?
- pas 10y agoNo, they just want a stable future, around which they can plan the API, but so far no one has delivered on that tiny requirement.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoLinux got where it is by evolving how the kernel and drivers interact whenever needed, without waiting to coordinate with outsiders and their closed work.
- the_why_of_y 10y agoThe Linux kernel does not have stable internal kernel APIs. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense...
- wolfgke 10y agoThis is exactly my point.