> Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Well, that's where it was - private to ARM. Then David Howells came
> > along and unilaterally - and without reference to anyone as far as I
> > can see - moved it to include/linux.
> >
> > Neither Nicolas, nor me had any idea that it was going to move into
> > include/linux - the first we knew of it was when pulling the change
> > from Linus' tree.
> >
> > Look, if people in the kernel community can't or won't communicate
> > with others (either through malice, purpose or accident), you can
> > expect this kind of crap to happen.
>
> Excuse me, Russell, but I sent Nicolas an email prior to doing so asking him
> if he had any objections:
>
> To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
> cc:
dhowells@redhat.com
> Subject: Moving asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:04:04 +0100
>
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Mind if I move include/asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/?
>
> I need to use it for MN10300.
>
> David
>
> He didn't respond. Not only that, but I copied Nicolas on the patch to make
> the move and the patch to make MN10300 use it when I submitted it to Linus on
> the 24th September, so it's not like he didn't have plenty of time. He
> certainly saw that because he joined in the discussion of the second patch.
> Furthermore, he could've asked Linus to refuse the patch, or to revert it if
> it had already gone in.
>
> I suppose I should've cc'd the ARM list too... but why should it adversely
> affect ARM?
