From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Mahoney Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] reiserfs fixes patch set Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:23:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4716998C.8050700@suse.com> References: <20071016230210.779927000@suse.com> <20071017151140.c5b782ef.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071017151140.c5b782ef.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:02:10 -0400 > Jeff Mahoney wrote: > >> This is a series of "safe" patches that have been in the openSUSE kernel >> for a while now. >> > > I'm not particularly happy seeing a large number of complex-looking patches > against a not-very-well-maintained important filesystem more than a week > into the merge window. It would have been far better to get this stuff > sent a month ago. > > Now we're left with a choice between holding it all back for 2.5 months or > just jamming it into mainline with basically no testing. I sure hope it > got good testing in the suse kernel. I'm fine being conservative here and just keeping them in -mm, then. Depending on when our next release ends up being scheduled, I'll likely have to maintain them out of tree anyway. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHFpmMLPWxlyuTD7IRAjstAJ4ze5cRUEFhVOkGiPCHrOMW/oQBLACeKgea BYiWeJkzr/voo+1P60Xrgec= =lo9N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----