modular: Changes to 'master'

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Oct 21 15:52:52 PDT 2008


On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:51:45 -0700
Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 18:15 +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> 
> > Is there a single technical reason why shipping both is a problem?
> 
> For the same reason the kernel avoids shipping multiple drivers for the
> same hardware

We don't. We have various transitions where we ship multiple drivers for
the same identifiers so that users can pick old/tested versus
new/featured during transitions.

Alan



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