Hi Martin, On Mon, 25 May 2009 01:38:26 -0400 "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The accessor function patch in my patch series was explicitly put in > place to enable changing the API without affecting users. And we've > tried to be careful about staging these patches in the right order > throughout all the involved trees. What you really need is to have the patches that introduce the accessors in a tree common to all the possible users of them. In practise this often means Linus' tree - in which case the patches should introduce noop versions of the accessors. If that is possible, Linus is quite happy to take those patches after which all the other users can take the conversions into their own tree and everyone is happy. :-) Currently the patches that introduce the accessors only exist in the block tree ... -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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