From: Amit Gud <amitgud1@gmail.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove union u from linux/fs.h
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:11:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c59f0030410202341539842ad@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098284026.3872.121.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:53:46 +0100, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 14:10 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > This patch does that along with the changes in other parts of the
> > > kernel that references the union. Its compile-tested and applies
> > > cleanly to 2.6.9 vanilla.
> >
> > I don't think we shoould do such purely cosmetic changes that break backwards
> > compatibility during stable series.
>
> I don't think he meant to apply it to 2.6.9.1. 2.6.10.x is an entirely
> new stable series, and 2.6.10-rcX are the development series leading up
> to it, surely?
>
Anyhow it be applied but I think that you agree with the intent of the patch.
AG
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 9:13 [PATCH] Remove union u from linux/fs.h Amit Gud
2004-10-20 13:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-20 13:28 ` Amit Gud
2004-10-20 14:53 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-21 6:41 ` Amit Gud [this message]
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