From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:36:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030307193644.A14196@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200303071932.h27JW1o11962.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>; from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:32:01PM +0100
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:32:01PM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > IMHO that's a bad change, (un)register_blkdev should just go away
> > completly.
>
> Yes, it would be best if the kernel became perfect at once.
> But the patch is rather large. Better go in small steps.
>
> Did you read the patch?
Yes, I did. What I object to is the prototype changes you did which
make absolutely no sense to get into 2.5 now when the functions will
disappear before 2.6. Feel free to change the actual implementation,
I couldn't care less on you wasting your time on that :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-07 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-07 19:32 [PATCH] register_blkdev Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:36 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-03-07 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 22:12 ` Greg KH
2003-03-07 22:33 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 23:45 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 0:50 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:05 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-08 1:03 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-09 2:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-03-10 4:46 ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-03-08 15:11 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 19:37 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 20:00 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 20:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 22:55 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-07 22:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 23:17 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-07 23:38 ` John Cherry
2003-03-07 23:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 23:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 1:49 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 1:58 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 2:15 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 2:42 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 19:31 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 21:39 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 21:59 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-09 4:32 ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-09 5:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-08 20:59 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 21:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 20:26 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 20:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 1:49 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 0:57 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 0:53 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <20030308073407.A24272@infradead.org>
2003-03-08 19:29 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 21:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 21:41 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 21:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 22:16 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-10 17:31 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 23:37 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 22:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 23:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-09 5:08 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-03-17 19:21 ` Steven Dake
2003-03-07 19:50 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 18:49 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
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