From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.imc-berlin.de ([217.110.46.186]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1D77H6-000753-Et for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 02:31:05 -0500 Received: from mailserver.berlin.imc-berlin.de (mailserver.berlin.imc-berlin.de [10.0.0.19]) by mail.imc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F6A2F017 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:31:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailserver.berlin.imc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E8A117F7 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:31:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.0.2.10] (scholz.berlin.imc-berlin.de [10.0.2.10]) by mailserver.berlin.imc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9337C116F7 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:31:02 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <42280EB6.4030007@imc-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:31:02 +0100 From: Steven Scholz MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MTD List References: <1109841282.5398.30.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <1109845739.16158.14.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1109846656.4370.20.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <1109846792.16158.20.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1109847189.4370.27.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <1109847630.16158.22.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <4226F51A.7070603@imc-berlin.de> <1109874008.29792.92.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1109874008.29792.92.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [RFD] Move 2.4 code out from CVS head List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:48 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >>>Does that mean that there will be _no_ " maintainence only mode" for >>>2.4? >> >>Depends if _you_ or someone else decides to volunteer for the task. >>do you? I don't. > > > I _am_ maintaining JFFS2 in the 2.4 kernel, even to the extent of > backporting the __wait_on_freeing_inode() stuff from 2.6 to fix the > problems with simultaneous read_inode() and clear_inode(). But I'm not > adding new features, so NAND flash isn't supported in 2.4. How about SUMMARY patch then? ;-) Seriously, since JFFS3 will not get into the 2.4 stuff Ferenc's SUMMARY patch would be nice! And BTW: How do I get the 2.4 branch from CVS? -- Steven