From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] 0/4 fs/ioctl.c coding style, function renaming/factoring Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:04:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20071030160442.e51e2b45.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <11937731993134-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hch@infradead.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Erez Zadok Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:54591 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758494AbXJ3XGf (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:06:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <11937731993134-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:39:55 -0400 Erez Zadok wrote: > This series of 4 proposed patches (take 3) changes fs/ioctl.c and Unionfs as > follows. The problem is of course that you need these in your tree for ongoing development, but 2.6.25 is months away. They look OK to me so I suggest that you go ahead and commit them to your git tree and I'll drop them again. Please resend them for merging in the 2.6.25-rc1 merge window. unionfs has been hanging around for a long time now and we should work towards getting it into 2.6.25 or dropped from -mm (sorry). Right now would be a great time to get this process underway. I have only a partial memory of what the sticking points were, and I have basically zero knowledge of what was done to address them. So could you please, over the next few weeks: - Send out a description of what the issues were, and how they were addressed - If issues remain, describe their impact and possible workarounds, all that stuff. - If it mostly-survives all that design-level review and consideration then let's go for it: get all the patches cleaned up and consolidated and get them emailed out for review no later than 2.6.24-rc5. Thanks.