From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
dsd@gentoo.org, Broadcom Linux <bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee80211softmac: Fix errors related to the work_struct changes
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:49:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061211214858.GA3415@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <457CDD7B.8080207@lwfinger.net>
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:24:27PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> I thought that when someone _BROKE_ an interface with this kind of change,
> it was their duty to fix _ALL_ parts of the system that uses this facility.
> At a minimum, shouldn't all maintainers get a heads up? I don't subscribe
> to LKML, but I peruse the summary and I certainly do not recall seeing a
> warning that this change was coming.
FWIW, there was some coverage on LWN.
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-11 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-10 17:39 [PATCH] ieee80211softmac: Fix errors related to the work_struct changes Ulrich Kunitz
2006-12-10 17:49 ` Michael Buesch
2006-12-10 18:35 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2006-12-10 18:40 ` Michael Buesch
2006-12-10 18:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 17:34 ` Larry Finger
2006-12-11 4:24 ` Larry Finger
2006-12-11 21:49 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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