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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-01-09 03:39:43 -0500 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-01-09 03:39:43 -0500 |
| commit | b2576e1d4408e134e2188c967b1f28af39cd79d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 004f3c82faab760f304ce031d6d2f572e7746a50 /Documentation/development-process | |
| parent | 3cc8a5f4ba91f67bbdb81a43a99281a26aab8d77 (diff) | |
| parent | 2150edc6c5cf00f7adb54538b9ea2a3e9cedca3f (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into release
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diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding index 014aca8f14e2..a5a3450faaa0 100644 --- a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding +++ b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding @@ -375,10 +375,10 @@ say, this can be a large job, so it is best to be sure that the justification is solid. When making an incompatible API change, one should, whenever possible, -ensure that code which has not been updated is caught by the compiler. +ensure that code which has not been updated is caught by the compiler. This will help you to be sure that you have found all in-tree uses of that interface. It will also alert developers of out-of-tree code that there is a change that they need to respond to. Supporting out-of-tree code is not something that kernel developers need to be worried about, but we also do -not have to make life harder for out-of-tree developers than it it needs to -be. +not have to make life harder for out-of-tree developers than it needs to +be. |