Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262390AbUK3W6t (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:58:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262418AbUK3W6t (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:58:49 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:5277 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262393AbUK3Wzo (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:55:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:55:00 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Matt Mackall cc: David Woodhouse , Alexandre Oliva , Paul Mackerras , Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , David Howells , hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ In-Reply-To: <20041130224851.GH8040@waste.org> Message-ID: References: <16810.24893.747522.656073@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1101828924.26071.172.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1101832116.26071.236.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1101837135.26071.380.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20041130224851.GH8040@waste.org> 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: 857 Lines: 28 On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Matt Mackall wrote: > > So we follow dhowell's plan with the following additions: No. We do _not_ move stuff over that is questionable. I thought that was clear by now. The rules are: - we only move things that _have_ to move - we don't break existing programs, and no "but they are broken already" is not an excuse. - we only move things where that _particular_ move can be shown to be beneficial. No whole-sale moves. No "let's break things that I think are broken". No "let's change things because we can". Well-defined moves. Both in content _and_ in reason. Linus - 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/