From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751156Ab1L0UaK (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:30:10 -0500 Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:31736 "EHLO rcsinet15.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750720Ab1L0UaH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:30:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <7866f872-ce94-4516-bd23-936ea3d0b4e3@default> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:29:46 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Magenheimer To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: greg@kroah.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, ngupta@vflare.org, Konrad Wilk , Kurt Hackel , sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Chris Mason Subject: RE: [PATCH V2 1/6] drivers/staging/ramster: cluster/messaging foundation References: <20111222155050.GA21405@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <243729.1325016332@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <243729.1325016332@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.6 (510070) [OL 12.0.6607.1000 (x86)] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4EFA2AC6.0024,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 1:06 PM > To: Dan Magenheimer > Cc: greg@kroah.com; devel@driverdev.osuosl.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-mm@kvack.org; > ngupta@vflare.org; Konrad Wilk; Kurt Hackel; sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com; Chris Mason > Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/6] drivers/staging/ramster: cluster/messaging foundation > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:50:50 PST, Dan Magenheimer said: > > > Copy cluster subdirectory from ocfs2. These files implement > > the basic cluster discovery, mapping, heartbeat / keepalive, and > > messaging ("o2net") that ramster requires for internode communication. > > Instead of doing this, can we have the shared files copied to a common > subdirectory so that ramster and ocfs2 can share them, and we only > have to fix bugs once? Hi Valdis -- Thanks for your reply! Per the discussion at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/22/369 your suggestion of the common subdirectory will definitely need to happen before ramster can be promoted out of staging and, at GregKH's request, I have added a TODO file in V3 to state that. Before that can happen, we'll need to work with the ocfs2 maintainers to merge the necessary ramster-specific changes and implement a separately CONFIG-able subdirectory for the ocfs2 cluster code. Dan