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| author | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> | 2009-01-22 19:12:32 +0000 |
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| committer | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> | 2009-01-22 19:12:32 +0000 |
| commit | dff243f7cb3a2ebbb09093066c1bc4a90ff5b3a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c63e7c2f879cd322ca785671b74b4ff796dd24c /Documentation/development-process/4.Coding | |
| parent | a5e6ced58d423cb09c4fc0087dcfdb0b5deb5e1c (diff) | |
| parent | f3b8436ad9a8ad36b3c9fa1fe030c7f38e5d3d0b (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-upstream
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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. |