From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757322AbZAMRfY (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:35:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754767AbZAMRfL (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:35:11 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:34133 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753662AbZAMRfK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:35:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:56:30 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Add two VFS exports used by POHMELFS Message-ID: <20090113165630.GA25450@kroah.com> References: <20090113124346.GA26101@ioremap.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090113124346.GA26101@ioremap.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:43:46PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Hi. > > POHMELFS is a very high-performance parallel network filesystem with > coherent local cache of data and metadata. It entered maintenance mode > and is being prepared for the next submission cycle. > I decided first to push it into the drivers/staging which was acked > by Greg for the wider testing and review and move into the vanilla tree > in the next merge window. > > POHMELFS needs two exports from the core VFS: add_to_page_cache_lru and > __lock_page_killable. > > Please apply given patch to the current tree. > > Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov Hm, usually we take exports at the same time the user goes into the tree. I don't mind adding these exports with the same patch series to add your filesystem to the drivers/staging tree, if Andrew and the other vfs developers agree it's a sane thing to be exporting. thanks, greg k-h