From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261208AbULABOs (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:14:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261209AbULABMu (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:12:50 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:42131 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261173AbULAA5b (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:57:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:57:08 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Woodhouse cc: Alexandre Oliva , dhowells , Paul Mackerras , Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ In-Reply-To: <1101862057.4574.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <19865.1101395592@redhat.com> <20041125165433.GA2849@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1101406661.8191.9390.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20041127032403.GB10536@kroah.com> <16810.24893.747522.656073@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <8219.1101828816@redhat.com> <1101854061.4574.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1101858657.4574.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1101860688.4574.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1101862057.4574.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > I really disagree. That's kind of my point. We _can_ make sure that there > > is abzolutely zero semantic content change. > > We've _never_ made sure that there's absolutely zero semantic content > change in our private headers. Not true. For example, I don't take spelling fixes that do semantic content changes. See? The more trivial the fix, the more obviously correct it has to be. This isn't even a "fix". It's a cleanup. It goes under the same rules a spelling fix does. Linus