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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document flexible arrays
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:13:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090909071352.33d204b1@bike.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0909081714150.6263@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 17:20:16 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> Hmm, there are a number of changes in -mm that conflict with the 
> description given in this document (element poisoning, DEFINE_FLEX_ARRAY, 
> array shrinking, etc).  Perhaps this could be based on the -mm behavior 
> and get pushed through Andrew so that it's consistent when merged for 
> 2.6.32?

I've seen those patches going by.  The problem is that documenting
existing, in-mainline APIs is challenging enough; trying to document
maybe-next-release versions is a recipe for frustration.  So I'd really
rather start with a document that describes the current state of the
art; I promise I'll update it when the other changes go in.

Sound reasonable?

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-09 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-08 23:56 Jonathan Corbet
2009-09-09  0:20 ` David Rientjes
2009-09-09 13:13   ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2009-09-09 19:26     ` David Rientjes

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