Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261180AbVAGCHA (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:07:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261158AbVAGCDc (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:03:32 -0500 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:56509 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261182AbVAGCC6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:02:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:02:27 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Andrew Morton Cc: Al Viro , arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, gregkh@us.ibm.com, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Message-ID: <20050107020227.GV1292@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@us.ibm.com 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050106152621.395f935e.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 989 Lines: 21 On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:26:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Guys, the technical arguments are all of course correct. But the fact > remains that we broke things without any notice. (Yes, perhaps someone did > say something at sometime, but the affected party didn't know, and it's our > job to make sure that they knew). (These exports were removed in October - > the IBM guys need to work out why it took so long to detect the breakage). Indeed! We are getting lists of symbols used by the various products, as well as working to get them tested more frequently against kernel.org trees instead of only against distro releases. IBM being what it is, -finding- all such products is a challenge, but so it goes. Thanx, Paul - 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/