On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 09:19:43PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
But then 4.11 was made available..... and the goal posts were moved several metres..... once again.
I am surprised that nVidia has the patience to put up with the constant moving of the goal posts - even while the game is in progress.
This is all due to kernel changes, nVidia knows this "game" quite well, and are purposefully "playing" it, and have been for over a decade. They could save time and money by just getting their driver merged into the main kernel tree, but have chosen not to.
I know of one developer who gave up with keeping his application up-to-date because of the constant changes for which he had to make adjustments which would satisfy the various distributions. The app. k9copy hasn't been touched for 3 years now and if you want to make a backup copy of your favourite DVD, for example, you now need to go MS. Sad really.
Userspace apis are totally different from in-kernel APIs, which are explicitly _not_ stable at all. These are not the same thing at all, please don't get them confused. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org