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| author | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2009-01-16 17:46:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2009-01-16 17:46:22 +0100 |
| commit | 5a2dd72abdae75ea2960145e0549635ce4e0be96 (patch) | |
| tree | 44dba0119c75679a17215200f92ab23bdde9efc2 /Documentation/development-process/4.Coding | |
| parent | efdc64f0c792ea744bcc9203f35b908e66d42f41 (diff) | |
| parent | 7cb36b6ccdca03bd87e8faca7fd920643dd1aec7 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into irq/genirq
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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. |