Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:19:53 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT pull] timer fixes for 3.4 |
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > The itimer removal one is not strictly a fix, but I really wanted to > avoid a rebase of the urgent ones.
Btw, I think that setitimer NULL pointer removal commit is crap.
If people actually do rely on the NULL pointer thing, we're not "scheduling it for removal". And we most *definitely* aren't scheduling it for removal for some short timeframe like 3.6.
That's not how ABI's work. If it has become something people rely on, it now *is* part of the ABI, and no amount of "violates the spec" matters what-so-ever.
"The spec" is paper - and worthless. What people actually *do* is all that matters.
Linus
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