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Re: [SIGS-L3GO] Reminder of L3GO meeting this evening.

  • Subject: Re: [SIGS-L3GO] Reminder of L3GO meeting this evening.
  • From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:55:57 -0500
On 2017-11-15 22:23, Alex Pilon wrote:
> > On 2017-11-15 19:08, Alex Pilon wrote:
> > > You missed the chance to talk about the ones that matter in this list:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 09:39:32PM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > Oh yeah, forgot about these.  :-D    There's another patch that went with the
> > top one that didn't make it in even though it has been discussed upstream for 6
> > months due to a *very* last minute objection from the userspace maintainer (2
> > days before merge).
> 
> WE DON'T BREAK USERSPACE!

Well, these were new features.  These were objections from the userspace
maintainer and not breakage of an existing API.

In fact, there were 3 within the last week.  Paul (Moore) and I were not
amused...  There was plenty of review time, with well-documented patches
including sample records.

> You do remember Linus' most recent rant right?

Oh, I'm quite aware of Linus' rants...

	slainte mhath, RGB

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