Re: OOM panics with zram

Nitin Gupta
2010-10-06T02:30:15Z

On 10/5/2010 7:43 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 02:41:09PM -0400, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>> Also, please do not use linux-next/mainline version of compcache. Instead
>> just use version in the project repository here:
>> hg clone https://compcache.googlecode.com/hg/ compcache
>
> What? No, the reason we put this into the kernel was so that _everyone_
> could work on it, including the original developers. Going off and
> doing development somewhere else just isn't ok. Should I just delete
> this driver from the staging tree as you don't seem to want to work with
> the community at this point in time?
>

Getting it out of -staging wasn't my intent. Community is the reason
that this project still exists.

>> This is updated much more frequently and has many more bug fixes over
>> the mainline. It will also be easier to fix bugs/add features much more
>> quickly in this repo rather than sending them to lkml which can take
>> long time.
>
> Yes, developing in your own sandbox can always be faster, but there is
> no feedback loop.
>

I was finding it real hard to find time to properly discuss each patch
over LKML, so I thought of shifting focus to local project repository
and then later go through proper reviews.

Thanks,
Nitin