From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762257AbXGJR1u (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:27:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756669AbXGJR1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:27:42 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:36073 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754437AbXGJR1l (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:27:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:27:16 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Theodore Tso Cc: Heiko Carstens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Amit Arora , Martin Schwidefsky Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate Message-Id: <20070710102716.2fcae91c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070710154503.GC27033@thunk.org> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070710090737.GA16519@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070710022213.81e7b432.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070710154503.GC27033@thunk.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:45:03 -0400 Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:22:13AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:07:37 +0200 Heiko Carstens wrote: > > > We reserved a different syscall number than the one that is used right now > > > in the patch. Please drop this patch... Martin or I will wire up the syscall > > > as soon as the x86 variant is merged. Everything else just causes trouble and > > > confusion. > > > > OK, I dropped all the fallocate patches. > > Andrew, I want to clarify who is going to push the fallocate patches. > I can either push them to Linus as part of the ext4 patch set, or we > can wait for you to push them. I thought since you had them in -mm > and we were going to wait you to push them (and presume that this was > going to happen soon). How about you send them? The syscall numbers might need to be changed based upon when/whether the revoke patches get merged. > Alternatively I can push them directly to Linus along with other ext4 > patches. I note that nobody really bothered reviewing all those ext4 patches. Do you feel that they have been adequately reviewed? I don't. I guess I know what I'll be doing today :( > We can drop the s390 patch if Martin or Heiko wants to wire > it up themselves. ia64 needs changing too.