Re: [PATCH resend] rewrite AF_UNIX garbage collector, fixes race

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 01:26:20 EST


On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:12:24 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But myself, nor any other developers, are going to review your work
> any faster if you do things like try to slip things in behind the
> maintainer's back as you attempted to do yesterday by asking Andrew to
> put your AF_UNIX garbage collector rewrite directly into his -mm tree.

mmm... I didn't see it as a slip-behind-the-back thing. More a "park it
in -mm for a bit of concurrent testing and so it doesn't get lost and so I
don't have to worry about it any more" thing. Plenty of that goes on.

It wasn't done in a very subtle way though ;)
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