On 2 October 2017 at 03:26, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> wrote:
El vie, 22-09-2017 a las 15:25 -0500, Michael Catanzaro escribió:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Chris Adams <linux@cmadams.net>
> wrote:
> > On what grounds?  There is nothing in the Fedora guidelines that
> > makes
> > package maintainers beholden to third-party (by definition, not
> > part
> > of
> > Fedora) repos.  There's nothing for FESCo to vote on, unless you
> > are
> > going to propose that change.
>
> OK, I'll bite. The grounds are that FESCo has granted the WG full
> control over the Workstation product, and the kernel package is part
> of
> that product. Although I can't speak for the entire WG today, I
> would
> be fairly astounded if the WG were to choose to allow kernel updates
> to
> break Negativo users after having identified Negativo as a strategic
> priority and advertised it as supported. So if a kernel update goes
> out
> that breaks Negativo users, I would expect a policy to delay future
> kernel upgrades until Negativo has been tested and confirmed to be
> working. Since that would be controversial, someone would surely
> appeal
> to FESCo. Probably easier for everyone to take it straight to FESCo,
> right?
>
> But again, if there is already a technical solution (a fallback to
> noveau) in place and working, as I suspect (would be really nice if
> somebody could confirm that!) then it doesn't matter.
>
> Michael

Just catching up on email, There is no such thing as a WG post GA, we
ship and support a single stream of updates for all products, editions
and spins. The only way that the WG could stop or control any update
for a package not owned by the WG is to provide enough negative karma
to an update in Bodhi to force it to not be ppushable. I would really
hope that people would not do that to keep updates out, and would
instead have a open honest discussion to try figure out a acceptable
path forward.  Any change to how we do updates would require
significant changes in many parts of how we manage the ditro and update
process. It would need discussions with Release Engineering and
Infrastructre, that came with resources to support the work.


Dennis
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Just to round off this thread since LWN linked to it a day or so ago ...

Installed 4.13.4-200.fc26.x86_64 from updates repo just now and and bumblebee-nvidia-384.90-1.fc26.x86_64 compiled the driver fine.