From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:41:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:41:33 -0400 Received: from roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com ([24.169.102.121]:2246 "EHLO roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:41:29 -0400 Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 22:41:47 -0400 From: Chris Mason To: Linus Torvalds cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Daniel Phillips , Andreas Dilger , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: linux-2.4.10-pre5 Message-ID: <1337070000.1000089707@tiny> In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday, September 09, 2001 07:03:46 PM -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: >> Anyway, the whole thing can be cut down to a smallish patch, either alone >> or on top of andrea's stuff. Daniel, if you want to work together on it, >> I'm game. > > If you'd be willing to integrate your patches on top of andreas (and > massage them to be the _only_ getblk interface) and look what the > resulting thing looks like, I bet that there will be a lot of people > interested in working on any final remaining issues. Ok, the getblk interace wasn't really tied to the rest of the patch, so it should be easy to cut out. I'll give it a go a little later in the week, I'm still catching up from sick days last week ;-) -chris