Re: supposed to be shared subtree patches.

Ram Pai
2005-07-26T02:53:13Z

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:44, Ram Pai wrote:
> , miklos@szeredi.hu, Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH 0/7] shared subtree
>
> Hi Andrew/Al Viro,
>
> Enclosing a final set of well tested patches that implement

....my apologies. I screwed up sending the patches through quilt.

anyway I have received the following comments from Andrew Morton, which
I will incorporate before sending out saner looking patches.
sorry again,
RP

Andrew's comments follows:
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Frankly, I don't even know what these patches _do_, and haven't spent
the time to try to find out.

If these patches are merged, how do we expect end-users to find out how
to use the new capabilities?

A few paragraphs in the patch #1 changelog would help. A high-level
description of the new capability which explains what it does and why it
would be a useful thing for Linux.

And maybe some deeper information in a Documentation/ file.

Right now, there might well be a lot of people who could use these new
features, but they don't even know that these patches provide them!
It's all a bit of a mystery, really.
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