gentle reminder

gentle reminder

[Andrew Morton]

<comes back from fixing more rejects>

When adding

- new Makefile entries
- new Kconfig entries
- new #includes
- new Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt records
- etc

you usually don't *have* to place your new entry right at the end of the
list.  Doing this maximises the probability of causing collisions with
other people's work.

So, to make life simpler for those who integrate your work, please consider
putting these entries somewhere other than where-everyone-else-puts-theirs.

You may even find that right-at-the-end wasn't the most appropriate place
anyway.  But random insertion works well too.

Thanks.

Re: gentle reminder

[Stephen Rothwell]

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On Wed, 7 May 2008 13:21:03 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> When adding
> 
> - new Makefile entries
> - new Kconfig entries
> - new #includes
> - new Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt records
> - etc
> 
> you usually don't *have* to place your new entry right at the end of the
> list.  Doing this maximises the probability of causing collisions with
> other people's work.
> 
> So, to make life simpler for those who integrate your work, please consider
> putting these entries somewhere other than where-everyone-else-puts-theirs.
> 
> You may even find that right-at-the-end wasn't the most appropriate place
> anyway.  But random insertion works well too.

Strongly seconded ....

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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