From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763587AbXGPUto (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:49:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758712AbXGPUtd (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:49:33 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:41172 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758118AbXGPUtc (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:49:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:49:30 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Andrew Morton Cc: Al Viro , Jan Harkes , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: wrong order of arguments of ->readdir() Message-ID: <20070716204930.GK21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <200707152359.l6FNx3oN023117@hera.kernel.org> <20070716134424.0cd870b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070716134424.0cd870b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > 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.