On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 20:31 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > in my experience, the only chance you have is doing API changes as first in > the set of changes, > and then hoping (making) all other trees use the new APIs. Any other order > just turns into > an impossible mismash.
It would be very nice to have a separate tree with _only_ API changes that could be frozen well before Linus' merge window opens. It should be a requirement that maintainers use this tree as a basis for testing API changes and even test that their own changesets were properly integrated with the changed APIs. As it is, we tend to get the order entirely wrong: API changes typically get merged _after_ the maintainer changes have been merged, and so no API changes are ever really integration tested. Cheers Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
