From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Oester Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:36:29 -0800 Message-ID: <20090109023629.GA29520@linuxace.com> References: <20090108165029.GA10951@infradead.org> <20090108175338.2abbee16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4966B24E.1050700@lougher.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Phillip Lougher , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Kay Sievers Return-path: Received: from adsl-67-120-171-161.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([67.120.171.161]:47927 "HELO linuxace.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754576AbZAICnK (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:43:10 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 03:24:40AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 03:11, Phillip Lougher > wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Apparently I reviewed the code a while back - that grey cell must have > >> died. Does anyone else intend to review the code in that timeframe? If > >> not, we might as well merge it now, if ever.. > >> > > > > I'll be very happy for a merge now, but of course it's not up to me :-( > > I guess, it is hard to find a larger distro that does not merge the > out-of-tree version to support their live-, and installer-cds. So, > what argument is preventing a mainline merge now? Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels for squashfs. Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days, so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it??? Phil