Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:59:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:58:51 -0400 Received: from weta.f00f.org ([203.167.249.89]:28291 "HELO weta.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:58:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 04:58:42 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: David Woodhouse Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Gunther Mayer , paul@paulbristow.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: (patch-2.4.6) Fix oops with Iomega Clik! (ide-floppy) Message-ID: <20010715045842.B6963@weta.f00f.org> In-Reply-To: <20010715031815.D6722@weta.f00f.org> <200107141414.f6EEEjQ05792@ns.caldera.de> <17573.995129225@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17573.995129225@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:47:05PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: Doing that in the middle of a supposedly stable series, even if it wasn't a fundamentally stupid thing to do in the first place, isn't really very sensible. If it changes vmlinux by a single byte, I might agree.... all it does is close off and older depricated API. Anyhow, say we leave linux/malloc.h for external module authors, but make the other changes? I'll re-run the script I wrote duing 2.5.x when we do remove malloc.h to catch anything left over. Does that sound reasonable? --cw - 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/