From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763350AbXGPVR0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:17:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759778AbXGPVRN (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:17:13 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:55536 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759258AbXGPVRL (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:17:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:01:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Al Viro Cc: Jan Harkes , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: wrong order of arguments of ->readdir() Message-Id: <20070716140134.389f1669.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070716204930.GK21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <200707152359.l6FNx3oN023117@hera.kernel.org> <20070716134424.0cd870b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070716204930.GK21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:49:30 +0100 Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:44:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Today is not being a good day. > > > > This bug was already fixed. The following mistakes were made: > > > > a) Jan's patch was misleadingly titled "coda: avoid lockdep warning in > > coda_readdir" > > > > b) Jan's patch had no changelog > > > > c) Jen's patch was not cc'ed to any mailing list > > ... said patch (presumably being an obvious fix of obvious roothole) > had not been sent to mainline immediately. Please send a copy to stable@kernel.org > > d) Al's patch was not sent to the maintainer. Nor to me. Nor was it > > staged in any tree which I can get at so that I could inform people of > > the upcoming conflict/duplication/etc. > > Coda is still maintained? That's certainly news to me - I'm not being > sarcastic, but my impression had been that coda got abandoned several > years ago. Jan does stuff occasionally.