From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756135AbZAMVa0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:30:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753040AbZAMVaQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:30:16 -0500 Received: from netgear.net.ru ([195.178.208.66]:45483 "EHLO tservice.net.ru" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751802AbZAMVaP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:30:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:30:13 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Add two VFS exports used by POHMELFS Message-ID: <20090113213013.GA27227@ioremap.net> References: <20090113124346.GA26101@ioremap.net> <20090113165630.GA25450@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090113165630.GA25450@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:56:30AM -0800, Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote: > > 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. Ok, I can push them together (just right now :), Andrew, Linus, do you agree to export those functions? -- Evgeniy Polyakov