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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:01:44 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:50:34 +0200 (CEST)
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:

> 
> On Thursday 2010-10-14 23:37, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> >The usual approach here is someone sends it to me and I send it to
> >> >Linus ;)
> >> 
> >> We tinkered on types.h before, with the change originating in the Netfilter
> >> subtree, and nobody, not even Dave, complained.
> >
> >It doesn't matter much at all what tree a change goes through.  What
> >matters more is that the appropriate people know about and see the
> >change.
> >
> >For example, I never even knew that aligned_u64 and friends existed (it
> >got secretly merged via the netfilter tree, apparently).
> 
> I would be interested in knowing whether you - in whichever subsystems
> you happen to be active - would even need aligned_u64. Right now,
> the only users seem to be PPP and scsi_tgt besides Netfilter.
> 

Stranger things have happened.

include/linux/net_dropmon.h:net_dm_config_entry can perhaps be
converted btw.