From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc:process: remove note from 'stable api nonsense'
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:43:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190120184338.01cd4ef9@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190118215804.3340-1-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 22:58:04 +0100
Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> wrote:
> The link referred by the note can't be retrieved: this patch just
> remove that old note.
>
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
> ---
> Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> index 24f5aeecee91..57d95a49c096 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> @@ -171,8 +171,7 @@ is also a rough job.
>
> Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we
> are talking about GPL released drivers here, if your code doesn't fall
> -under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech
> -<insert link to leech comment from Andrew and Linus here>.) If your
> +under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech). If your
> driver is in the tree, and a kernel interface changes, it will be fixed
> up by the person who did the kernel change in the first place. This
> ensures that your driver is always buildable, and works over time, with
I've applied this. I do wonder if the "you leech" should maybe come out
too, though. I don't think that parasitic worms are a protected class
under the CoC, but they might still suffer emotionally from being
compared to the purveyors of proprietary modules...
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-21 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-18 21:58 [PATCH] doc:process: remove note from 'stable api nonsense' Federico Vaga
2019-01-19 8:32 ` Greg KH
2019-01-21 1:43 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2019-01-21 8:14 ` Federico Vaga
2019-01-21 8:37 ` Greg KH
2019-01-22 9:17 ` Federico Vaga
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