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    SubjectRe: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))
    On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:51:52PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
    > > We could simply decide that API changes affecting more than one subsystem
    > > Must Be Serialized(tm). Explicitly. As in "any such change is posted
    >
    > Welcome to dreamland. The only way I can get serial changes done is to
    > wait months and eventually simply persuade Andrew to ignore the
    > "maintainers" who are basically not responding.

    ... because we didn't realise that the pre-requisits for those patches
    had already gone in. If that had been the case, I'd have applied the
    ARM changes for the new tty ioctls immediately.

    It was a communication problem, not a process problem.

    --
    Russell King
    Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
    maintainer of:


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