Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:07:01 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) |
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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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