Re: wrong order of arguments of ->readdir()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jul 16 2007 - 17:17:27 EST


On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:49:30 +0100
Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:44:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Today is not being a good day.
> >
> > This bug was already fixed. The following mistakes were made:
> >
> > a) Jan's patch was misleadingly titled "coda: avoid lockdep warning in
> > coda_readdir"
> >
> > b) Jan's patch had no changelog
> >
> > c) Jen's patch was not cc'ed to any mailing list
>
> ... said patch (presumably being an obvious fix of obvious roothole)
> had not been sent to mainline immediately.

Please send a copy to stable@xxxxxxxxxx

> > d) Al's patch was not sent to the maintainer. Nor to me. Nor was it
> > staged in any tree which I can get at so that I could inform people of
> > the upcoming conflict/duplication/etc.
>
> Coda is still maintained? That's certainly news to me - I'm not being
> sarcastic, but my impression had been that coda got abandoned several
> years ago.

Jan does stuff occasionally.
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