From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:59346 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751442AbYBLWSa (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:18:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:17:26 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) Message-Id: <20080212141726.1e214729.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080212215152.1470fe7f@core> References: <20080212044314.GA4888@kroah.com> <20080211211751.3e265754@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080211.221126.230471463.davem@davemloft.net> <47B1CB08.4020101@garzik.org> <1202838082.3137.54.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1202840682.3137.83.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080212194100.GH27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080212215152.1470fe7f@core> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Alan Cox Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, jeff@garzik.org, davem@davemloft.net, arjan@infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:51:52 +0000 Alan Cox wrote: > > We could simply decide that API changes affecting more than one subsystem > > Must Be Serialized(tm). Explicitly. As in "any such change is posted > > Welcome to dreamland. The only way I can get serial changes done is to > wait months and eventually simply persuade Andrew to ignore the > "maintainers" who are basically not responding. "maintainers"? I think the best way to get the serial drivers maintained would be to cat them all onto the end of synclink.c and hope that Paul thinks he did it.