From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Mainlining Lustre client Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:20:55 -0400 Message-ID: <20130430212055.GB28641@fieldses.org> References: <1882637210201641A747464075FFC649025BEEEA@MX101CL02.corp.emc.com> <20130427132144.GC32432@kroah.com> <20130427155632.GF19487@tassilo.jf.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Al Viro , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , Christoph Hellwig , Andreas Dilger , Matthew Wilcox , Theodore Ts'o , "Myklebust, Trond" , "faibish, sorin" , "Tang, Haiying" To: Peng Tao Return-path: Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:37501 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932826Ab3D3VVC (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:21:02 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:12:27AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> The rules for staging are: > >> - it has to build > >> - it has to be self-contained in drivers/staging/YOUR_NAME/ > >> - it has to have a correct license (i.e. GPLv2 compatible). > >> - it has to have a TODO file listing what needs to be done in > >> order to get it out of staging. > >> that's it. > > > > Traditionally Lustre needed some patches in fs/* > > I don't know if that's still the case. > > > > But if yes you would likely need to get those in first separately. > > > Those are only needed for Lustre server now. For client, there is no > need to patch other parts out side of fs/lustre and net/lnet. The Lustre server is in kernel? Are there plans to mainline that? If not, what does someone need to get to test the client? --b.