From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: "Nitin Gupta" <ngupta@vflare.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Hugh Dickins" <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
"Ed Tomlinson" <edt@aei.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-mm-cc@laptop.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] virtual block device driver (ramzswap)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:26:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090915152641.GA22667@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020909150130r573df1e1jfe359b88387f94ad@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:30:16AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Btw, Nitin, why are you targeting drivers/block and not
> drivers/staging at this point? It seems obvious enough that there are
> still some issues that need to be ironed out (like the CONFIG_ARM
> thing) so submitting the driver for inclusion in drivers/staging and
> fixing it up there incrementally would likely save you from a lot of
> trouble. Greg, does ramzswap sound like something that you'd be
> willing to take?
If it is self-contained, actually builds, and there is an active
developer who is working getting it merged into the main kernel tree,
then yes, I will be willing to take it into the drivers/staging/ tree.
Just send me the patches.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: "Nitin Gupta" <ngupta@vflare.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Hugh Dickins" <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
"Ed Tomlinson" <edt@aei.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-mm-cc@laptop.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] virtual block device driver (ramzswap)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:26:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090915152641.GA22667@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020909150130r573df1e1jfe359b88387f94ad@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:30:16AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Btw, Nitin, why are you targeting drivers/block and not
> drivers/staging at this point? It seems obvious enough that there are
> still some issues that need to be ironed out (like the CONFIG_ARM
> thing) so submitting the driver for inclusion in drivers/staging and
> fixing it up there incrementally would likely save you from a lot of
> trouble. Greg, does ramzswap sound like something that you'd be
> willing to take?
If it is self-contained, actually builds, and there is an active
developer who is working getting it merged into the main kernel tree,
then yes, I will be willing to take it into the drivers/staging/ tree.
Just send me the patches.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200909100215.36350.ngupta@vflare.org>
2009-09-09 21:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] virtual block device driver (ramzswap) Nitin Gupta
2009-09-09 21:19 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-14 20:10 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-14 20:10 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-15 6:39 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-15 6:39 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-15 7:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-15 7:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-15 8:21 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-15 8:21 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-15 8:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-15 8:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-15 15:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-09-15 15:26 ` Greg KH
2009-09-15 15:55 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-15 15:55 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-15 11:45 ` Ed Tomlinson
2009-09-15 11:45 ` Ed Tomlinson
2009-09-15 12:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-15 12:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-15 13:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-09-15 13:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-09-15 13:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-15 13:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-15 14:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-09-15 14:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-09-09 21:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] documentation Nitin Gupta
2009-09-09 21:21 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-09 21:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] send callback when swap slot is freed Nitin Gupta
2009-09-09 21:50 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-09 21:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] xvmalloc memory allocator Nitin Gupta
2009-09-09 21:53 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-09 22:02 ` [PATCH 0/4] compcache: in-memory compressed swapping v2 Nitin Gupta
2009-09-09 22:02 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-12 2:24 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-12 2:24 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-13 19:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-13 19:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-14 4:04 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-14 4:04 ` Nitin Gupta
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