From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, paulmck@us.ibm.com,
arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com,
markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:15:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050107091542.GA5295@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050107090014.GA24946@elte.hu>
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:00:14AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> so my strong position is that even asking for any 'warning period' for
> changes in VFS internals (including exports/unexports) would be
> extremely rude. It would be rude not only towards the authors and
> maintainers of mainline VFS code, but also towards other external
> trees/drivers who do _not_ ask for any special status and accept the
> deal: "follow internals, notice kernel people if they do bad stuff
> (extremely rare in my case) and fix/redesign stuff if the external tree
> is broken (much more common)".
<sarcasm>
<osdl-salespitch>
Unfortunately you don't have the financial and political powers IBM
has, so your opinion doesn't matter as much. Maybe you should become
OSDL member to influence the direction of Linux development.
</osdl-salespitch>
</sarcasm>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-07 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 19:05 [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 19:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 20:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 20:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 20:35 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-06 20:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 21:35 ` Greg KH
2005-01-06 19:14 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 20:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 19:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-06 20:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 20:32 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 21:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 21:24 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-06 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 0:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 0:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 7:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-06 23:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 0:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 3:30 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-07 9:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-07 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-01-07 12:14 ` Antonio Vargas
2005-01-07 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 22:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-08 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-08 0:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-08 2:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 23:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-08 13:10 ` Al Viro
2005-01-07 1:34 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 3:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 8:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 23:56 ` [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation Greg KH
2005-01-07 0:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 0:32 ` Greg KH
2005-01-07 17:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-01-07 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 18:11 ` Greg KH
2005-01-11 12:23 ` [PATCH] cpufreq 2.4 interface removal schedule [Was: Re: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation] Dominik Brodowski
2005-01-12 18:41 ` Greg KH
2005-01-07 23:58 ` [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation Dominik Brodowski
2005-01-12 18:41 ` Greg KH
2005-01-08 18:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-08 21:46 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-08 23:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-09 6:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-09 6:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 2:02 ` [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 1:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 1:20 ` Al Viro
2005-01-13 2:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 7:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-13 17:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 17:07 ` Greg KH
2005-01-13 17:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 17:55 ` Greg KH
2005-01-13 18:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 7:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-07 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 15:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 15:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-07 15:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 15:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20050107091542.GA5295@infradead.org \
--to=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=arjan@infradead.org \
--cc=greghk@us.ibm.com \
--cc=jtk@us.ibm.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=markv@us.ibm.com \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=paulmck@us.ibm.com \
--cc=pbadari@us.ibm.com \
--cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
--cc=viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk \
--cc=wtaber@us.ibm.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.