Re: [PATCH] jbd/jbd2 NULL noise

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:56:34 +0000 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:01:52PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > > > > I did, it went into -mm and on Mar 5 it was taken into the subsystem
> > > 
> > > Al, still morbidly curious about the akpm's scripts and aforementioned
> > > message...
> > 
> > Not sure which tree, but received this on Feb 27:
> > 
> > 
> > The patch titled
> >      jbd2: sparse warnings in revoke.c, journal.c
> > has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
> >      jbd2-sparse-warnings-in-revokec-journalc.patch
> > 
> > This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a
> > subsystem tree
> > 
> > The current -mm tree may be found at
> > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> 
> Ah...  jbd part of it is still there, jbd2 is *also* there, but it's got
> ext4-mm- prefix to filename.  And looking at ext4.git, jbd2 side of that
> stuff *is* merged, so what the hell is it doing in a separate file?
> Looks like -mm has ext4 stuff not as a single patch (like it does for
> many other git trees) but split into individual changesets for some
> reason...
> 

Yup, -mm consists of

- 71 git trees (origin.patch plus 70 git-foo.patch) (some may be empty)

  - The URL for each of these can be obtained from the first line of
    git-foo.patch, in http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

- Nine quilt trees, pulled from various opendirs

  Sekkrit locations:

http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/kernel/rr-latest
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/kristen/pci-hotplug
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/ext4-patches/LATEST/broken-out/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver-core
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-03-usb
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-02-pci
http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/linux-2.6/jdelvare-i2c/
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/pata-2.6/patches/
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/

- squillions of other patches which are only in -mm.


Interesting factoid: -mm's series file was started on 1 Dec 2002 and is at
its 16,231st revision.  I'm surprised it hasn't worn out.