Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration.

[Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>]

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On 07/01/2013 11:29 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
> On 07/01/2013 09:56 PM, Greg KH wrote:> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at
> 09:36:21PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
>>> That is because fixes for other filesystems are either held back by a
>>> lack of system kernel updates or held hostage by regressions in newer
>>> kernels on certain hardware.
>>
>> I have never heard this being a reason for keeping code upstream, what
>> do you mean by it?
> 
> This is an issue that end users tend to encounter where changes in a
> newer kernel break stuff that they need. One example is nouveau kexec
> support. Another is that the nouveau in the first two RCs of Linux 3.7
> (if I recall) broke my display completely.

I probably should clarify that this issue keeps some users from
obtaining bug fixes in key components (e.g. their filesystem). That is
why I prefer the situation where code lives out-of-tree and works on a
variety of kernels over the situation where it is bundled with the
kernel for in-tree builds.


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