From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
agruen@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net, andi@firstfloor.org
Subject: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:01:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101014150144.3d895940.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010142342400.31442@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:50:34 +0200 (CEST)
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 2010-10-14 23:37, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> >The usual approach here is someone sends it to me and I send it to
> >> >Linus ;)
> >>
> >> We tinkered on types.h before, with the change originating in the Netfilter
> >> subtree, and nobody, not even Dave, complained.
> >
> >It doesn't matter much at all what tree a change goes through. What
> >matters more is that the appropriate people know about and see the
> >change.
> >
> >For example, I never even knew that aligned_u64 and friends existed (it
> >got secretly merged via the netfilter tree, apparently).
>
> I would be interested in knowing whether you - in whichever subsystems
> you happen to be active - would even need aligned_u64. Right now,
> the only users seem to be PPP and scsi_tgt besides Netfilter.
>
Stranger things have happened.
include/linux/net_dropmon.h:net_dm_config_entry can perhaps be
converted btw.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-14 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-14 19:34 Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h Eric Paris
2010-10-14 19:45 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-14 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-14 21:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-14 21:35 ` Eric Paris
2010-10-14 21:37 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-14 21:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-10-14 21:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-14 22:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-10-14 22:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-14 23:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-15 3:03 ` Abbrevieated SHA1s (Was: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h) Stephen Rothwell
2010-10-15 8:22 ` Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h Andi Kleen
2010-10-15 9:01 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-15 10:15 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-10-15 14:26 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-15 14:44 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-10-15 15:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-15 10:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
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