Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758927AbYHCRhY (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 13:37:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756682AbYHCRhM (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 13:37:12 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:59345 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756446AbYHCRhL (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 13:37:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:35:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Rusty Russell cc: Paul Menage , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , "Randy.Dunlap" , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200807291015.02865.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200807292301.18733.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200808031833.32048.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 18 On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Anyway, I NAK'ed your patches. Deal with it. Btw, "dealing with it" can just be "don't bother". Leaving old stuff _alone_ is a perfectly good approach. Being slightly ugly for historical reasons is much less of a problem than just "change for change's sake". 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/