From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031641AbXEAJww (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 05:52:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031640AbXEAJww (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 05:52:52 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38737 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031641AbXEAJwv (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 05:52:51 -0400 From: Neil Brown To: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 19:52:11 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17975.3531.838077.563475@notabene.brown> Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: nfsd/md patches Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans In-Reply-To: message from Christoph Hellwig on Tuesday May 1 References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <17974.34116.479061.912980@notabene.brown> <20070501090843.GB17949@infradead.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-face: [Gw_3E*Gng}4rRrKRYotwlE?.2|**#s9D apropos nfsd patches, what's the merge plans for my two export ops > patch series? Still sitting in my tree - I've had my mind on other things (nfs-utils, portmap....) and let them slip - sorry. I think also there was an unanswered question about the second series (there first I am completely happy with). > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:34:53 +1000 > > My only question involves motivation. > > You say "less complex", but to me it just looks "different" - though > being very familiar with the original, that might be a biased view. > Can you say more about how it is less complex? > Maybe the extension to generic 64bit support will make that clear... > > But then generic 64bit support should just be an independent set of > helper functions that can be plugged in to the export_operations > structure. > It think I programmed myself to use a reply to that to be my wake_up to forwarded them on, and forgot to register a timeout handler.... NeilBrown