From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:52825 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754726AbYBLTlg (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:41:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:41:00 +0000 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) Message-ID: <20080212194100.GH27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: James Bottomley , Jeff Garzik , David Miller , 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, akpm@linux-foundation.org On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:59:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > In other words, I'm perfectly happy to be an a*hole and tell people that I > > simply won't merge things that cause undue API churn at all, and that were > > not thought out sufficiently. > > .. btw: I'd need to know this in advance. I usually don't see the problem > until it's too late. We could simply decide that API changes affecting more than one subsystem Must Be Serialized(tm). Explicitly. As in "any such change is posted and discussed in advance, order of merges decided upon and we have merge window for one decided set of API changes + fallout *ONLY*". With merge window in question normally taking a few days.