Re: Fw: Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

[Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 21:30 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 17:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:29:05 -0500 Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 10:05 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > .
> > > > There were later patches posted to the list after this version, I think, which
> > > > are not yet in Ted's tree... I'll find some time today to test the "take3" version
> > > > on x86_64, unless someone beats me to it.
> > > 
> > > I didn't quite beat you to it, but I did make a diff to bring
> > > 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 in tune with the "take3" patch.  It makes the code easier
> > > to understand, but I'm not sure if it contains anything to fix the bug.
> > > Code inspection hasn't gotten me any closer to figuring out what's
> > > wrong.
> > > 
> > > Shaggy
> > 
> > It's possible that I screwed up merging Ted's tree into mainline - it spat
> > some rejects, and needs updating to 2.6.21-rc3.
> 
> I think your merge of Ted's tree is okay, although his tree could use
> some cleanup.  The patch Eric sent on top of mine should clear up this
> problem.  I'll try to get Ted's tree up to date, or find someone with
> some more spare time to take over maintenance.

I would help maintain the tree, it does needs a fair amount of work and
time.  Ted has already started looking at using ABAT to automate the
process of testing the ext4 git tree on all arch. This seems worth
invest some time on this.  Currently it seems he has been extremely busy
with other duties so I am trying to help on this first.

Mingming