On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 13:30 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:43:33 +0100 David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org wrote:
In updates, such things are actually much less likely to break, except when we rebase to a newer kernel -- and if you've kept your driver working in rawhide then it should work fine when we rebase the release to the newer kernel anyway. Even if not, we tend to be quite conservative about releasing new kernels anyway -- they end up in updates-testing for some time, and that gives you time to get it working. The urgent security fixes are usually relatively small and unlikely to break drivers.
It's not something that scales hugely, but we don't _want_ it to. We should be sticking close to upstream, and not shipping drivers which aren't getting merged.
Yeah that sounds reasonable. Any chance we could get a peep from Davej and Cebbert on this?
I think they should approve any individual driver or system which gets added.
If they want to express disapproval of the whole concept, they can feel free to use a procmail filter to say "nah, sod off" to _every_ such request. :)