linux-kernel - Re: wrong order of arguments of ->readdir()

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:49:30 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jan Harkes <jaharkes@...cmu.edu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wrong order of arguments of ->readdir()

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:44:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Today is not being a good day.
> 
> This bug was already fixed.   The following mistakes were made:
> 
> a) Jan's patch was misleadingly titled "coda: avoid lockdep warning in
>    coda_readdir"
> 
> b) Jan's patch had no changelog
> 
> c) Jen's patch was not cc'ed to any mailing list

... said patch (presumably being an obvious fix of obvious roothole)
had not been sent to mainline immediately.

> d) Al's patch was not sent to the maintainer.  Nor to me.  Nor was it
>    staged in any tree which I can get at so that I could inform people of
>    the upcoming conflict/duplication/etc.

Coda is still maintained?  That's certainly news to me - I'm not being
sarcastic, but my impression had been that coda got abandoned several
years ago.
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