Re: [0/7] Distributed storage for drivers/staging merge request

Andrew Morton
2009-01-14T00:12:37Z

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:01:30 -0800
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> > Really. I implemented all the suggestions I got from the previous
> > reviews (including spaces and documentations, which btw were the only
> > ones :) way too long ago and did not get any other complaints. Actually
> > the tree I sent to you does not contain documentation update I have in
> > the own tree (pointed during review), so this can be added as todo entry :)
> > My fault I found that too late.
>
> Hm, then why can't this whole thing just go into fs/dst/ right now?
> It's self-contained, so there shouldn't be any special "must live in
> staging" rule for filesystems before adding them.
>
> We take new drivers at almost any point in the release cycle, why should
> filesystems be any different?

Well... the case for merging drivers is usually pretty simple - the
hardware exists, so we need the driver.

Whereas the "do we need this" case for new filesystems isn't this simple.