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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:26:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> cc: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, agruen@...e.de, davem@...emloft.net, andi@...stfloor.org Subject: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h 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) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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