From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263062AbUE1Nh5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 09:37:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263079AbUE1Nh5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 09:37:57 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:31926 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263062AbUE1Nh4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 09:37:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:37:45 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Jones , Andrey Panin , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] 2.6.7-rc1-mm1, Simplify DMI matching data Message-ID: <20040528133745.GA28167@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , Dave Jones , Andrey Panin , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20Oc4-HT-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <20040528125447.GB11265@redhat.com> <20040528132358.GA78847@colin2.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040528132358.GA78847@colin2.muc.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:23:58PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > My point stays that kernel interfaces should stay stable in the stable > series as far as possible (= unless terminally broken, but that's > clearly not the case here). If you feel the need to clean up > something better wait for the unstable series. So what interface doews the patch break? I can only see that it adds interfaces.