Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm2

Sébastien Dugué
2007-03-07T09:32:52Z

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:49:19 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:39:48 +0100 Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 00:44:08 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Temporarily at
> > >
> > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc2-mm2/
> > >
> > > Will appear later at
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc2/2.6.20-rc2-mm2/
> > >
> > >
> > > - git-block.patch is having problems which are getting in the way - it has
> > > been dropped.
> > >
> > > - As a consequence all the AIO patches were dropped
> > >
> >
> > Why? The aio notification and listio patches have nothing to do with
> > git-block.patch.
>
> Yes, I could have retained those with a little bit of jiggling. But...
>
> > If you think those patches will be rendered obsolete by the new
> > syslet/fibril/whatever approach, then fine.
>
> Until this is sorted out I don't think we can add new core AIO code.
> Particularly not new syscalls.

Makes sense.

>
> > Otherwise do you expect me to
> > resubmit?
>
> Is OK for now, I think.

Ok, thanks for the good job.

Sébastien.