Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm2

Andrew Morton
2007-03-07T08:49:24Z

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.

> Otherwise do you expect me to
> resubmit?

Is OK for now, I think.