Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f42.google.com ([209.85.216.42]:39459 "EHLO mail-qw0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759096Ab1IIW3I convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:29:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:28:47 -0700 Message-ID: (sfid-20110910_002945_950114_780B3C1E) Subject: Re: Backporting the Linux kernel, for good - was: Re: semantic patch inference To: Julia Lawall Cc: Jesper Andersen , Hauke Mehrtens , linux-wireless , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Julia Lawall wrote: >> > I guess that the patch that spdiff will receive will already contain the >> > appropriate #ifs, so we don't have to be concerned about them. >> >> That is correct. >> >> > We just add them in as is. >> >> I do not follow, add what? > > Sorry.  The + code. The #ifdefs ad the compatibility code.  We don't have > to interpret it, so we don't care whether it is only related to kernel > version numbers or something more complex. Ah yes, indeed! Luis