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Date:   Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:43:38 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc:process: remove note from 'stable api nonsense'
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 22:58:04 +0100
Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> wrote:

> The link referred by the note can't be retrieved: this patch just
> remove that old note.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> index 24f5aeecee91..57d95a49c096 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> @@ -171,8 +171,7 @@ is also a rough job.
>  
>  Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we
>  are talking about GPL released drivers here, if your code doesn't fall
> -under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech
> -<insert link to leech comment from Andrew and Linus here>.)  If your
> +under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech).  If your
>  driver is in the tree, and a kernel interface changes, it will be fixed
>  up by the person who did the kernel change in the first place.  This
>  ensures that your driver is always buildable, and works over time, with

I've applied this.  I do wonder if the "you leech" should maybe come out
too, though.  I don't think that parasitic worms are a protected class
under the CoC, but they might still suffer emotionally from being
compared to the purveyors of proprietary modules...

jon