From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: zbr@ioremap.net, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dst@ioremap.net
Subject: Re: [0/7] Distributed storage for drivers/staging merge request
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:12:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090113161221.b23510b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114000130.GA20811@kroah.com>
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:01:30 -0800
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > Really. I implemented all the suggestions I got from the previous
> > reviews (including spaces and documentations, which btw were the only
> > ones :) way too long ago and did not get any other complaints. Actually
> > the tree I sent to you does not contain documentation update I have in
> > the own tree (pointed during review), so this can be added as todo entry :)
> > My fault I found that too late.
>
> Hm, then why can't this whole thing just go into fs/dst/ right now?
> It's self-contained, so there shouldn't be any special "must live in
> staging" rule for filesystems before adding them.
>
> We take new drivers at almost any point in the release cycle, why should
> filesystems be any different?
Well... the case for merging drivers is usually pretty simple - the
hardware exists, so we need the driver.
Whereas the "do we need this" case for new filesystems isn't this simple.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-13 23:05 [0/7] Distributed storage for drivers/staging merge request Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [1/7] dst: core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [2/7] dst: network state machine Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [3/7] dst: export node Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [4/7] dst: thread pool Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [5/7] dst: transactions Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [6/7] dst: crypto processing Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [7/7] dst: kconfig and makefile changes Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:09 ` [8/7] dst: kconfig update Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 2:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-14 9:09 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 2:22 ` [7/7] dst: kconfig and makefile changes Randy Dunlap
2009-01-14 14:46 ` [4/7] dst: thread pool Frederik Deweerdt
2009-01-14 15:01 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-15 5:58 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15 8:47 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-19 0:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-19 17:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-02-05 13:55 ` David Howells
2009-01-14 14:52 ` [3/7] dst: export node Jens Axboe
2009-01-14 15:11 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:39 ` [0/7] Distributed storage for drivers/staging merge request Greg KH
2009-01-13 23:47 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 0:01 ` Greg KH
2009-01-14 0:08 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 0:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-14 0:15 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 0:20 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-14 0:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 9:39 ` Jeff Garzik
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