netdev - Re: [PATCH] ieee80211softmac: Fix errors related to the work

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Message-ID: <20061211214858.GA3415@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:49:04 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Larry Finger <larry.finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, dsd@...too.org,
	Broadcom Linux <bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee80211softmac: Fix errors related to the work_struct changes

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:24:27PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:

> I thought that when someone _BROKE_ an interface with this kind of change, 
> it was their duty to fix _ALL_ parts of the system that uses this facility. 
> At a minimum, shouldn't all maintainers get a heads up? I don't subscribe 
> to LKML, but I peruse the summary and I certainly do not recall seeing a 
> warning that this change was coming.

FWIW, there was some coverage on LWN.

-- 
John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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