From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ram Pai Subject: Re: supposed to be shared subtree patches. Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:53:00 -0700 Message-ID: <1122346380.12074.133.camel@localhost> References: <20050725224417.501066000@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Al Viro , Avantika Mathur , Mike Waychison Return-path: Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:63953 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261598AbVGZCxK (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:53:10 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050725224417.501066000@localhost> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:44, Ram Pai wrote: > , miklos@szeredi.hu, Janak Desai , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: [PATCH 0/7] shared subtree > > Hi Andrew/Al Viro, > > Enclosing a final set of well tested patches that implement ....my apologies. I screwed up sending the patches through quilt. anyway I have received the following comments from Andrew Morton, which I will incorporate before sending out saner looking patches. sorry again, RP Andrew's comments follows: ---------------------------------------- Frankly, I don't even know what these patches _do_, and haven't spent the time to try to find out. If these patches are merged, how do we expect end-users to find out how to use the new capabilities? A few paragraphs in the patch #1 changelog would help. A high-level description of the new capability which explains what it does and why it would be a useful thing for Linux. And maybe some deeper information in a Documentation/ file. Right now, there might well be a lot of people who could use these new features, but they don't even know that these patches provide them! It's all a bit of a mystery, really. ---------------------------------------------------------------------