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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2009-01-09 02:32:13 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2009-01-09 02:32:13 +0300 |
| commit | d5b524327b2a482dddae3839ced8f8825074730d (patch) | |
| tree | 723b62f8c1388ee4f9bc98708edd4682c6144c48 /Documentation | |
| parent | 2884f00b94be73a6a7875bada739bf9bb2f9a1b6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d5b524327b2a482dddae3839ced8f8825074730d.tar.xz | |
Fix a typo in the development process document.
Reported-by: Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/development-process/4.Coding | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
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. |