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From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/5] LZO and swap write failure patches for -mm
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:56:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181033802.6180.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070604225038.9973226b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 22:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd say go with the cleanups.  The code I've seen is going to be quite
> unmaintainable by any kernel developer.
> 
> Any fixes which come from upstream can be trivially applied by taking the
> diffs against the version of upstream we started with and manually applying
> them to our version.  If the diffs are too large and complex for that then
> a) we shouldn't be merging the code in its current state anyway and b) with
> the code as-is we couldn't effectively review or changelog those diffs, so
> we shouldn't apply them.
> 
> So just fork it and freeze it.

Ok, thanks for the decision.

Since I don't have too much faith in what Nitin has done with it, I'll
produce a version myself. In theory we should end up with identical code
so will be a sanity check of Nitin's code if nothing else.

Cheers,

Richard



  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-05  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-04 15:36 [PATCH -mm 0/5] LZO and swap write failure patches for -mm Richard Purdie
2007-06-04 16:14 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-04 16:52   ` Richard Purdie
2007-06-04 17:37     ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-04 18:34       ` Nitin Gupta
2007-06-04 20:45       ` Richard Purdie
2007-06-04 22:13         ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-04 18:26     ` Nitin Gupta
2007-06-04 20:06       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-05  5:30         ` Nitin Gupta
2007-06-05  5:50           ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-05  8:56             ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2007-06-04 20:58       ` Richard Purdie
2007-06-05  6:15         ` Christoph Hellwig

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