Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261259AbVAGAsI (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:48:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261160AbVAGA2z (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:28:55 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:27057 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261229AbVAGA01 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:26:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:26:24 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, paulmck@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Message-ID: <20050107002624.GA29006@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, paulmck@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org References: <20050106190538.GB1618@us.ibm.com> <1105039259.4468.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050106201531.GJ1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106203258.GN26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106210408.GM1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106212417.GQ26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106152621.395f935e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050106234123.GA27869@infradead.org> <20050106162928.650e9d71.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050106162928.650e9d71.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.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: 761 Lines: 15 On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:29:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Fine. Completely agree. Sometimes people do need to be forced to make > such changes - I don't think anyone would disagree with that. > > What's under discussion here is "how to do it". Do we just remove things > when we notice them, or do we give (say) 12 months notice? Remove when we notice with a short (measured in weeks) period where that removal happens only in -mm. It's a price people have to pay for not submitting their code upstream. - 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/