From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753914AbZHMJ1z (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:27:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753375AbZHMJ1z (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:27:55 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:64545 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753369AbZHMJ1y (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:27:54 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Amerigo Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] new kfifo API Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:27:21 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.29; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Stefani Seibold , "linux-kernel" , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen References: <1250029873.17599.98.camel@wall-e> <20090813030903.GC5031@cr0.nay.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090813030903.GC5031@cr0.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908130927.22124.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+8431Xed5WObQub565EIzJ5uDrMtDxUrr4GdV +QdrLTeR2x5N3X3jCZADGNxXGQJzQn6nXC/2twBVtM879F/M2Y z9yYSgQej6FU/B7tzPAlQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 13 August 2009 03:09:03 Amerigo Wang wrote: > And, personally I don't like your splitting of these patches, > I prefer to see kfifo API changes first, then their usages. Note that they are relatively hard to split without breaking git-bisect. That can only work if you are able to introduce the API under a different name first and then change the users, finally removing the old API. Arnd <><