Re: OOM panics with zram

Greg KH
2010-10-06T14:13:15Z

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 12:30:39AM -0400, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> > So, should I delete the version in staging, or are you going to send
> > patches to sync it up with your development version?
> >
>
> Deleting it from staging would not help much. Much more helpful would
> be to sync at least the mainline and linux-next version of the driver
> so it's easier to develop against these kernel trees. Initially, I
> thought -staging means that any reviewed change can quickly make it
> to *both* linux-next and more importantly -staging in mainline.

It makes it quickly to linux-next, right?

Nothing goes "quickly" to mainline, other than the normal development
process, which is well documented as to how it all works.

> Working/ Testing against mainline is much smoother than against
> linux-next.

Sure it's "easier", but that's not how kernel development is done,
sorry. See Documentation/development-process/ for details.

thanks,

greg k-h