From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QgJ2E-00019O-4r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:08:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B99DA21C0C4 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:08:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1091D21C318 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:11:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwb7 with SMTP id 7so2591994qwb.40 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:11:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=TDliWqhlrnVJkJ9Wg2IoX+IpLJijkXYa49DUVdh7CN8=; b=CP95d00D0cCRjfhczlSjA5ukPL2mAkaHbhdNA2LfAQcficTwmFgWvoS8EZSJipZMS6 gHMyG+nhq0b2CYxjCs6jYupQLMVoH8lAQbxgCI2MxfmydkGxltebF3vE0n3uU03lJ1xQ j/hZxMM1TQIu+s4ROZQkQgIoFFemAlRH8nIqI= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.204.194 with SMTP id fn2mr3260131qab.121.1310397083600; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.2.77 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:11:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110711144538.24aceaab@digimed.co.uk> References: <4E11EEF3.70804@gmail.com> <4E168B0E.2070100@gmail.com> <201107080702.58452.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E16B251.6080204@gmail.com> <4E16B548.5050105@gmail.com> <4E17B3C3.4010009@gmail.com> <4E187F60.9080400@gmail.com> <4E18ABC3.1090909@orlitzky.com> <4E18C082.4070209@gmail.com> <4E18C977.9070001@orlitzky.com> <4E18D5A7.8040309@gmail.com> <4E1971AA.20209@coolmail.se> <4E1A00BA.5090306@gmail.com> <20110710230550.3e7c9060@digimed.co.uk> <4E1A4374.2090707@gmail.com> <4E1A8420.1050908@gmail.com> <20110711144538.24aceaab@digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:11:23 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8ede3f89663562c5373132c7705202ca On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:47:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > That is the latest for my card that is in the tree. >> >> No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The >> link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the >> latest 'Certified' driver revision 275.09.07 to get this fix. Just >> because the Gentoo devs haven't marked it as stable does (to me) mean >> that I should take their word for it. > > Gentoo devs don't mark software as stable, they mark ebuilds as stable. > This has no direct link to the usability of the software itself. Very true and while I don't think my post disagreed with you your clarification is timely. It's unclear to me whether there is a specific dev policy about exactly what has to happen to have an ebuild marked as stable but my understanding has been that then Gentoo devs do different things like wait for some number of users to download it and/or watch bug reports for some period of time ensuring there aren't too many problems, etc., before marking the ebuild as stable. Is that roughly correct? - Mark