From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753973AbZEYFyl (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2009 01:54:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751451AbZEYFye (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2009 01:54:34 -0400 Received: from chilli.pcug.org.au ([203.10.76.44]:34939 "EHLO smtps.tip.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751242AbZEYFyd (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2009 01:54:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:54:26 +1000 From: Stephen Rothwell To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mikulas Patocka , Mike Snitzer , Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: linux-next: block tree build failure Message-Id: <20090525155426.28331f5f.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> In-Reply-To: References: <20090525143511.f9e76bdc.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.16.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Mon__25_May_2009_15_54_26_+1000_c.eYP148V7JYzF.A" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Signature=_Mon__25_May_2009_15_54_26_+1000_c.eYP148V7JYzF.A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Martin, On Mon, 25 May 2009 01:38:26 -0400 "Martin K. Petersen" wrote: > > The accessor function patch in my patch series was explicitly put in > place to enable changing the API without affecting users. And we've > tried to be careful about staging these patches in the right order > throughout all the involved trees. What you really need is to have the patches that introduce the accessors in a tree common to all the possible users of them. In practise this often means Linus' tree - in which case the patches should introduce noop versions of the accessors. If that is possible, Linus is quite happy to take those patches after which all the other users can take the conversions into their own tree and everyone is happy. :-) Currently the patches that introduce the accessors only exist in the block tree ... --=20 Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ --Signature=_Mon__25_May_2009_15_54_26_+1000_c.eYP148V7JYzF.A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoaMpIACgkQjjKRsyhoI8xF4QCgj8sl8pkG8IIMBn7/SjJ9La6U xxQAoJOFIFAfPmnXZYFujW1bLRdh17/N =kA9b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Mon__25_May_2009_15_54_26_+1000_c.eYP148V7JYzF.A--