diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 5431da7ec91b..a56a53f7d62c 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 2884f00b94be73a6a7875bada739bf9bb2f9a1b6 +refs/heads/master: d5b524327b2a482dddae3839ced8f8825074730d diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding b/trunk/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding index 014aca8f14e2..a5a3450faaa0 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding +++ b/trunk/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.