linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] doc:process: remove note from 'stable api nonsense'

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Message-ID: <53383524.y9DmdCAcNX@pcbe13614>
Date:   Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:14:00 +0100
From:   Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc:process: remove note from 'stable api nonsense'

On Monday, January 21, 2019 2:43:38 AM CET Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 22:58:04 +0100
> 
> Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it> wrote:
> > The link referred by the note can't be retrieved: this patch just
> > remove that old note.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>
> > ---
> > 
> >  Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> > b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst index
> > 24f5aeecee91..57d95a49c096 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> > @@ -171,8 +171,7 @@ is also a rough job.
> > 
> >  Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we
> >  are talking about GPL released drivers here, if your code doesn't fall
> > 
> > -under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech
> > -<insert link to leech comment from Andrew and Linus here>.)  If your
> > +under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech).  If
> > your> 
> >  driver is in the tree, and a kernel interface changes, it will be fixed
> >  up by the person who did the kernel change in the first place.  This
> >  ensures that your driver is always buildable, and works over time, with
> 
> I've applied this.  I do wonder if the "you leech" should maybe come out
> too, though.  I don't think that parasitic worms are a protected class
> under the CoC, but they might still suffer emotionally from being
> compared to the purveyors of proprietary modules...

I agree, do you want me to change the patch?

> 
> jon


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Federico Vaga
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