From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] futex requeueing feature, futex-requeue-2.5.69-D3 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 May 2003 17:05:02 MST."
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Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 12:34:50 +1000
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In message <3ECAC2AE.8090401@redhat.com> you write:
> Ingo's last patch is just fine.  New functionality should not be added
> to the to-be-obsoleted interfaces.

Perhaps I was reading too much into Linus' mail, but I read it as
"don't obsolete the old interface and introduce a new one just because
of some sense of aesthetics".

ie. it's not a to-be-obsoleted interface.

I think we're long past this being a productive thread, though.
Rusty.
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  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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