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On 19:42 Aug 09, Ben Swartzlander wrote:
> Mike, you must have left the midcycle by the time this topic came up. On the
> issue of out-of-tree drivers, I specifically offered this proposal (a
> community managed mechanism for distributing driver bugfix backports) as an
> compromise alternative to try to address the needs of both camps. Everyone
> who was in the room at the time (plus DuncanT who wasn't) agreed that if we
> had that (a way to deal with backports) that they wouldn't want drivers out
> of the tree anymore.
> 
> Your point of view wasn't represented so go ahead and explain why, if we did
> have a reasonable way for bugfixes to get backported to the releases
> customers actually run (leaving that mechanism unspecified for the time
> being), that you would still want the drivers out of the tree.

There is no need to repeat. Read the earlier oppositions in this thread,
thanks.

-- 
Mike Perez