Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261474AbUJTO4u (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:56:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266705AbUJTO4X (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:56:23 -0400 Received: from baythorne.infradead.org ([81.187.226.107]:17288 "EHLO baythorne.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266683AbUJTOy6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:54:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove union u from linux/fs.h From: David Woodhouse To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Amit Gud , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20041020131015.GB20287@infradead.org> References: <2c59f00304102002135ca68dd0@mail.gmail.com> <20041020131015.GB20287@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1098284026.3872.121.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2.dwmw2.1) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:53:46 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by baythorne.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 21 On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 14:10 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This patch does that along with the changes in other parts of the > > kernel that references the union. Its compile-tested and applies > > cleanly to 2.6.9 vanilla. > > I don't think we shoould do such purely cosmetic changes that break backwards > compatibility during stable series. I don't think he meant to apply it to 2.6.9.1. 2.6.10.x is an entirely new stable series, and 2.6.10-rcX are the development series leading up to it, surely? -- dwmw2 - 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/