Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h | From | Eric Paris <> | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:35:17 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 23:26 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2010-10-14 21:54, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >> A patch was posted a bit ago by agruen which made a change to > >> include/linux/types.h changing aligned_u64 to __aligned_u64 and exposing > >> this new type to userspace. > >> [...] > >> I'm a little stuck as to the right path forward. I normally would have > >> had no qualms about adding __aligned_u64 to types.h in the notification > >> tree and pushing it to Linus next go-round and then the net tree could > >> convert and potentially drop the old aligned_u64 type (but again that > >> would be outside the net tree). Since Dave isn't willing to add the > >> type and I don't want to get called too many bad names > > > >The usual approach here is someone sends it to me and I send it to > >Linus ;) > > We tinkered on types.h before, with the change originating in the Netfilter > subtree, and nobody, not even Dave, complained. (See v2.6.24-6165-gc82a5cb)
I'm doing the separation and will send part 1 to akpm in a bit. Make it easy and make sure noone gets upset :)
-Eric
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