On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 09:38:51AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:13:53PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > A second series to deal > > > with ->setattr will follow and after that we can easily switch > > > over one filesystem after another. > > > > > > I think this is still 2.6.34 material as it will make the fs > > > switches a lot easier and avoid introducing the _newtrunc variants > > > for one kernel release. > > > > No objections from me, but what is the policy on changing exported APIs > > without changing the name? > > There is no policy, but we do it all the time. Yeah, just wondering. There is a pseudo don't-break-exported-symbols thing happening sometimes but while I think it sometimes catches removed symbols in reviews, more subtle breakage probably usually gets past. > Note that we also change > the prototypes for all but cont_write_begin so it's an easy to spot > compile breakage. True. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
