From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:00:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:00:15 -0400 Received: from e21.nc.us.ibm.com ([32.97.136.227]:38899 "EHLO e21.nc.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:00:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3D5D68C4.8030806@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:04:04 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Mochel CC: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: [PATCH] add buddyinfo /proc entry References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patrick Mochel wrote: > You're making things up and spreading FUD. Why would you want to do that? Because IBM has a grand, secret plan to replace driverfs with BigBlueFS. We have brainwashed Linus into taking it and we will rule the world! No, I'm just being selfish and I'm a bit uninformed. I understand it better now because Greg explained why you want to do it. The thing that did it for me was Linus's decree that vm tunables _will_ move to driverfs. That changes the scenario from "Greg and Patrick are bitching" to "Linus wants this" and thus it will be the wave of the future. Maybe you guys need to make this a bit more clear. > Oh right, it's because most "kernel developers" would rather bitch about > that which they do not understand and cut down other developers than suck > it up and actually try to learn something from someone else. I'm trying to understand, that's why I asked so many questions. I am mistaken about the machine not booting completely if it doesn't understand a fs-type, Greg corrected me here. Summary: A driverfs version of this patch is on the way. -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com