Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

Phil Oester
2009-01-09T02:43:35Z

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 03:24:40AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 03:11, Phillip Lougher
> <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> Apparently I reviewed the code a while back - that grey cell must have
> >> died. Does anyone else intend to review the code in that timeframe? If
> >> not, we might as well merge it now, if ever..
> >>
> >
> > I'll be very happy for a merge now, but of course it's not up to me :-(
>
> I guess, it is hard to find a larger distro that does not merge the
> out-of-tree version to support their live-, and installer-cds. So,
> what argument is preventing a mainline merge now?

Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels
for squashfs. Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days,
so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost
all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it???

Phil