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

From: Federico Vaga
Date: Mon Jan 21 2019 - 03:14:08 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > 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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