Re: [PATCH 00/60] xfs: patch queue for 3.11

Ric Wheeler
2013-06-19T14:54:32Z

On 06/19/2013 10:44 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:35:37AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
>> >Dave,
>> >
>> >On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 02:50:08PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> > >This is my patch queue for 3.11 as it stands right now.
>> >
>> >Getting all of this in for 3.11 does not strike me as being realistic. You
>> >need to think about how this can be split up. I see that you have rebased
>> >Jeff's log size validation patch set after your rearrangement. I'd rather
>> >you'd taken Jeff's series first and then made your changes. Now we can't pull
>> >in Jeff's work without pulling in a bunch of rearrangement that hasn't been
>> >fully discussed. You have also crowded out Chandra's quota work. We had an
>> >agreement with him to go for 3.11 with that work which you have broken.
> I think 3.11 is a realistic target for all the code movearound, but
> maybe not as part of the normal pull request for -rc1. If we make sure
> it's really moving code around and not changing it I think a sending a
> second pull request to Linus saying this is just code movearounds we
> wanted to do when the churn causes least problems with actual code work
> he should be fine with it.

Just to chime in here, we have a lot of resources focused on testing these XFS
updates both internally with our QA team and with a range of other RH partners.

I am confident we can shake out any integration concerns in time.

Thanks!

Ric