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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710112056010.6887@woody.linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:03:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, rdreier@...co.com, general@...ts.openfabrics.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, jeff@...zik.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] please pull infiniband.git for-linus On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:58:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > So I merged it all, and I don't expect any problems, but I'm hoping > > somebody is thinking about that mod_devicetable.h/file2alias.c mess. > > > > I'm not entirely sure who to blame on that thing. I'm adding Greg to the > > Cc, on the assumption that blaming him is usually the right thing to do ;) > > Hey, it wasn't me this time, I haven't even built my trees for you to > pull from and break everything yet :) No, I meant more in the "who the hell is responsible for designing those *files*" rather than who is responsible for the particular merge mess that happened to involve them this time around. > But yeah, splitting up the mod_devicetable.h/file2alias.c mess is a very > good idea, I'll see what I can come up with tomorrow. I don't think it's a huge issue, but I wanted to bring it up because these days we're normally so good with these kinds of things that it actually stood out a bit. I used to do these kinds of nasty merges all the time with init/main.c and the configuration files, until we split them up. So I'm certainly perfectly able and used to doing them, it's just that I also think that we have generally learnt to do so much better. In other words: no hurry or pressure, I just wanted to bring it up, since during the merge I got flashbacks to various "bad old times" that I had hoped we had mostly left behind. Those files were originally designed/set up by Rusty. I could have blamed him, or perhaps Sam as a kbuild guy, but the reason I cc'd you is that I think this kind of smells like a "device model"ish thing... Hmm? Linus - 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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