From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 1 of 2 
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       paulmck@us.ibm.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:16:06 +0200."
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:35:03 +1000
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In message <20030818141606.GU7862@dualathlon.random> you write:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:21:04PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > It is the latter that I am concerned about changing mid-stable-series.
> 
> given the number of users (a dozen) I wouldn't be concerned about the
> API change either.

Hi Andrea,

	We don't know how many there are *outside* the tree during the
stable series, though.  It's really nice if APIs don't change
gratuitously during stable kernels, because there are lots of (free,
source available) patches which are outside the tree, and that's a
*good* thing, IMHO.

Change it now or leave it, IMHO.
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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