Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269170AbUJUGm2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:42:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269119AbUJUGmZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:42:25 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.193]:4711 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269170AbUJUGlH (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:41:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Qzr2aLSVN/Vup1I/MoR2UHxJS8v9VjF5plL8U+FrRE/PvnMYPSOf38kd9qWl/xLEfY8FIjFzZLTBxpLQAa3Mkpb++x42ebf9LUqlHuv/hJzFW6ppcy8tIHuVM4egczbjbXe6kTx3Iu9TCndka6FT1d8G82tl+5rIjRIFj4eVFEM Message-ID: <2c59f0030410202341539842ad@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:11:06 +0530 From: Amit Gud Reply-To: Amit Gud To: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove union u from linux/fs.h Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <1098284026.3872.121.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2c59f00304102002135ca68dd0@mail.gmail.com> <20041020131015.GB20287@infradead.org> <1098284026.3872.121.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 941 Lines: 22 On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:53:46 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > 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? > Anyhow it be applied but I think that you agree with the intent of the patch. AG - 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/