Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764333AbYBLTlx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:41:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764098AbYBLTli (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:41:38 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:52825 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754726AbYBLTlg (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:41:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:41:00 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: James Bottomley , Jeff Garzik , David Miller , arjan@infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) Message-ID: <20080212194100.GH27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20080212044314.GA4888@kroah.com> <20080211211751.3e265754@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080211.221126.230471463.davem@davemloft.net> <47B1CB08.4020101@garzik.org> <1202838082.3137.54.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1202840682.3137.83.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1001 Lines: 22 On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:59:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > In other words, I'm perfectly happy to be an a*hole and tell people that I > > simply won't merge things that cause undue API churn at all, and that were > > not thought out sufficiently. > > .. btw: I'd need to know this in advance. I usually don't see the problem > until it's too late. We could simply decide that API changes affecting more than one subsystem Must Be Serialized(tm). Explicitly. As in "any such change is posted and discussed in advance, order of merges decided upon and we have merge window for one decided set of API changes + fallout *ONLY*". With merge window in question normally taking a few days. -- 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/