Let me just say that I answered your complaint two _days_ ago. You never
answered that, just continued to flame on. I'm tired of you. Go away.
The reason you keep on getting flames back is that you have been rather
irritating on this subject.
Linus
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:59:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: Linux kernel 2.1.118 released
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> Hi, all. I've just noticed that kernel 2.1.118 has broken source
> compatibility for struct file_operations. This means that people have
> to hand-patch drivers which are not included with the source.
> The change in question was the introduction of the new flush()
> method.
Indeed.
I put it in the middle very much on purpose - to force people who use
open/release to at least be aware of it.
Linus
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:05:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
Cc: "Garst R. Reese" <reese@isn.net>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: 2.1.118 Tons of oopes
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> Linus: for god's sake, back out the particular patch that did this!
> Surely we can live with having flush() at the end of the structure?!?!
For Gods sake, when somebody notices the compiler warnings when compiling
a new module, if he doesn't take them seriously he has only himself to
blame.
I end up maintaining the end result, and I categorically refuse to make
bad decisions just because there's going to be a very limited amount of
pain for a week or two - I end up having to maintain it for _years_. As
such, my priorities are slightly different than other peoples.
Linus
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