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| author | Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com> | 2009-01-14 16:29:08 +1100 |
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| committer | Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com> | 2009-01-14 16:29:08 +1100 |
| commit | c088f4e9da74b901f7ed1749ad697d77622ed0f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 84cddf20369f82f10c1c3712e6cce20dd1b9d863 /Documentation/development-process/4.Coding | |
| parent | ce79735c12d62c3cda38eb31762cf98e87c7b087 (diff) | |
| parent | a6525042bfdfcab128bd91fad264de10fd24a55e (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding index 014aca8f14e..a5a3450faaa 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. |