From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc6 new aops patchset Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:58:05 +0100 Message-ID: <20070417095805.GA10071@infradead.org> References: <20070412044852.GA31961@wotan.suse.de> <20070417001932.GT21982@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20070417055944.GA1057@wotan.suse.de> <20070417093323.GA4328@infradead.org> <20070417094711.GB9267@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Mark Fasheh , Linux Filesystems To: Nick Piggin Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:37871 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753195AbXDQJ6G (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:58:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070417094711.GB9267@wotan.suse.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:47:11AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > I've tried to go through and convert most of the easier ones, and there > are only a handful of remainders, many of which seem pretty straightforward > and I'll probably end up doing most of them. > > Reiserfs I think is the biggest one left out, and I hope the maintainers > will help with that. > > > What about supporting out-of-tree code? Should we provide the backwards > compatibility for a few releases? The good thing about it is that it will > run noticably slower (but deadlock free!), so if anyone cares, they will > have incentive to update :) No, definitly not. We don't keep a lot of junk for out of tree users around. Especially as the whole generic_file* mechanisms is pretty deeply interwinded with filesystems and VM code and shouldn't really be used out of tree.