Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264418AbUAMRC1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:02:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264441AbUAMRC1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:02:27 -0500 Received: from jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.208.2]:46505 "EHLO jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264418AbUAMRC0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:02:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:02:22 +0100 (CET) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fix DECSTATION depends In-Reply-To: <20040113163934.GB31459@linux-mips.org> Message-ID: References: <20040113015202.GE9677@fs.tum.de> <20040113022826.GC1646@linux-mips.org> <20040113163934.GB31459@linux-mips.org> Organization: Technical University of Gdansk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1072 Lines: 26 On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > The dependency was intentional: stable for 32-bit, experimental for > > 64-bit. I'm reverting the change immediately. Please always contact me > > before applying non-obvious changes for the DECstation. > > Well, this one seemed to be obvious but sometimes things are not what > they seem to be ... Hmm, a change of semantics wouldn't qualify as obvious for me... I admit this construct may seem surprising at first sight when compared to many other uses of EXPERIMENTAL -- the equivalent more verbose syntax used for 2.4 leaves no doubt about the intent, though. Maciej -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/