Re: wrong order of arguments of ->readdir()

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Jul 16 2007 - 16:49:44 EST


On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:44:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Today is not being a good day.
>
> This bug was already fixed. The following mistakes were made:
>
> a) Jan's patch was misleadingly titled "coda: avoid lockdep warning in
> coda_readdir"
>
> b) Jan's patch had no changelog
>
> c) Jen's patch was not cc'ed to any mailing list

... said patch (presumably being an obvious fix of obvious roothole)
had not been sent to mainline immediately.

> d) Al's patch was not sent to the maintainer. Nor to me. Nor was it
> staged in any tree which I can get at so that I could inform people of
> the upcoming conflict/duplication/etc.

Coda is still maintained? That's certainly news to me - I'm not being
sarcastic, but my impression had been that coda got abandoned several
years ago.
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