netdev - Re: [PATCH resend] rewrite AF_UNIX garbage collector, fixes race

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Message-Id: <20070710222511.bcc87825.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:25:11 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	miklos@...redi.hu, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] rewrite AF_UNIX garbage collector, fixes race

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:12:24 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> But myself, nor any other developers, are going to review your work
> any faster if you do things like try to slip things in behind the
> maintainer's back as you attempted to do yesterday by asking Andrew to
> put your AF_UNIX garbage collector rewrite directly into his -mm tree.

mmm...  I didn't see it as a slip-behind-the-back thing.  More a "park it
in -mm for a bit of concurrent testing and so it doesn't get lost and so I
don't have to worry about it any more" thing.  Plenty of that goes on.

It wasn't done in a very subtle way though ;)
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