From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 1 of 2
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 10:32:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030802003246.064132C04F@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 2003 16:00:36 MST." <20030801160036.029e542b.akpm@osdl.org>
In message <20030801160036.029e542b.akpm@osdl.org> you write:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Gratuitous change to API during stable series BAD BAD BAD. If
> > you drop this it stays as is until 2.8. The extra arg in
> > unneccessary, but breaking it is worse.
>
> There won't be any out-of-tree users by then.
Not that you will know of, that's the entire point IMHO.
All those people who forward port to 2.6, or who are developing
drivers for the first time, completely outside the "normal" channels.
Just please please please don't break any API in a stable series.
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-02 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-31 18:58 [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 1 of 2 Dipankar Sarma
2003-07-31 19:06 ` [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 2 " Dipankar Sarma
2003-07-31 20:49 ` [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 1 " Andrew Morton
2003-07-31 21:31 ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-07-31 21:25 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-01 21:16 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-01 23:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-02 0:32 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2003-08-02 1:19 ` Greg KH
2003-08-02 1:49 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-02 13:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-08 2:21 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-18 14:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-25 3:35 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-02 1:16 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-08-02 1:43 ` Matt Mackall
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