From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932196Ab0JNVfh (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:35:37 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:21087 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756086Ab0JNVff (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:35:35 -0400 Subject: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h From: Eric Paris To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, agruen@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net, andi@firstfloor.org In-Reply-To: References: <1287084892.3367.18.camel@dhcp231-212.rdu.redhat.com> <20101014125458.9e51ac58.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:35:17 -0400 Message-ID: <1287092117.3367.20.camel@dhcp231-212.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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