From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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 11:49:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030802015140.6FE9C2C04F@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 2003 18:19:43 MST." <20030802011943.GA1107@kroah.com>
In message <20030802011943.GA1107@kroah.com> you write:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:32:24AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Just please please please don't break any API in a stable series.
>
> We reserve the right to break any in-kernel api if it is deemed
> necessary, this is Linux after all :)
Sure. But it's not neccessary. The replacement is cleaner and
smaller, sure, but it's not worth changing once 2.6 is out. In 2.7,
sure.
I'm happy to accept "no" from Andrew, but not happy to accept "we'll
just change the API midway through 2.6".
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-02 1:51 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
2003-08-02 1:19 ` Greg KH
2003-08-02 1:49 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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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