Re: Resolved merge conflicts in next-creds

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi James, David,

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:53:40 +1000 (EST) James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We have tried this approach thus far without success, although perhaps now 
> the code has been in linux-next and you've come to the same conclusion, we 
> could try again.
> 
> David, if you want to make a minimal API-only patch set, I'll can stage it 
> and push to Linus.

The important thing (and what is different in what I have proposed) is
that what you are asking Linus to take here has zero impact (i.e. you just
add a header file that noone uses and whose contents are clearly noops)
and then it is very obvious that when people start to use it, the changes
really cannot introduce a regression.

Of course, Linus has to be convinced that the long term API change is
sensible as well.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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