Re: state of the cvs tree

Lachlan McIlroy
2007-09-13T00:48:20Z

David Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:05:15AM +1000, Mark Goodwin wrote:
>>
>> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> looks like the cvs tree is broken currently - fs/xfs/ is merged up to
>>> 2.6.23-rc, but everything else is still at 2.6.22-rc state leading to
>>> various compile failures.
>> I think Tim is in the middle of the .23 update and still has some more
>> to push in. Tim?
>>
>> What else do you (or anyone for that matter) have in the pipeline for XFS?
>> Whilst we're taking huge patches and cleanups, let's get them all in asap.
>
> Let's plan this a little better than "ASAP". We've already got a
> full queue for .24 - I'm uncomfortable with pushing anything more
> given the nature of the changes we've made in this cycle and we
> really want some testing time on that code before the .24 merge
> window opens. Given that we are at .23-rc6 already, it won't be long
> before .24-rc1 merge window is open, so lets stop pushing large
> changes into the tree until after the .24-rc1 merge is done.
>
> IOWs, I consider stuff like Eric's spin lock clean to be .25 material
> at this point, not .24, and we should only be taking bug fixes and small,
> contained features (e.g. fallocate support) for .24. Everything else
> can wait until .25....
>
> Thoughts?
>

Sounds fair to me, Dave.