Re: [RFC patch 08/18] cnt32_to_63 should use smp_rmb()

David Howells
2008-11-07T23:43:41Z

Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> Well, that's where it was - private to ARM. Then David Howells came
> along and unilaterally - and without reference to anyone as far as I
> can see - moved it to include/linux.
>
> Neither Nicolas, nor me had any idea that it was going to move into
> include/linux - the first we knew of it was when pulling the change
> from Linus' tree.
>
> Look, if people in the kernel community can't or won't communicate
> with others (either through malice, purpose or accident), you can
> expect this kind of crap to happen.

Excuse me, Russell, but I sent Nicolas an email prior to doing so asking him
if he had any objections:

To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Moving asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:04:04 +0100

Hi Nicolas,

Mind if I move include/asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/?

I need to use it for MN10300.

David

He didn't respond. Not only that, but I copied Nicolas on the patch to make
the move and the patch to make MN10300 use it when I submitted it to Linus on
the 24th September, so it's not like he didn't have plenty of time. He
certainly saw that because he joined in the discussion of the second patch.
Furthermore, he could've asked Linus to refuse the patch, or to revert it if
it had already gone in.

I suppose I should've cc'd the ARM list too... but why should it adversely
affect ARM?

David