From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wrong order of arguments of ->readdir()
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:49:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716204930.GK21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070716134424.0cd870b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:44:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Today is not being a good day.
>
> This bug was already fixed. The following mistakes were made:
>
> a) Jan's patch was misleadingly titled "coda: avoid lockdep warning in
> coda_readdir"
>
> b) Jan's patch had no changelog
>
> c) Jen's patch was not cc'ed to any mailing list
... said patch (presumably being an obvious fix of obvious roothole)
had not been sent to mainline immediately.
> d) Al's patch was not sent to the maintainer. Nor to me. Nor was it
> staged in any tree which I can get at so that I could inform people of
> the upcoming conflict/duplication/etc.
Coda is still maintained? That's certainly news to me - I'm not being
sarcastic, but my impression had been that coda got abandoned several
years ago.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-16 20:49 UTC|newest]
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2007-07-16 20:44 ` wrong order of arguments of ->readdir() Andrew Morton
2007-07-16 20:49 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-07-16 21:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-16 23:04 ` Jan Harkes
2007-07-16 21:47 ` Jan Harkes
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