From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] rewrite AF_UNIX garbage collector, fixes race Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:25:11 -0700 Message-ID: <20070710222511.bcc87825.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070710.221224.48800386.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:47943 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752675AbXGKF0E (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:26:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070710.221224.48800386.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:12:24 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > But myself, nor any other developers, are going to review your work > any faster if you do things like try to slip things in behind the > maintainer's back as you attempted to do yesterday by asking Andrew to > put your AF_UNIX garbage collector rewrite directly into his -mm tree. mmm... I didn't see it as a slip-behind-the-back thing. More a "park it in -mm for a bit of concurrent testing and so it doesn't get lost and so I don't have to worry about it any more" thing. Plenty of that goes on. It wasn't done in a very subtle way though ;)