RE: [PATCH V2 1/6] drivers/staging/ramster: cluster/messaging foundation

Dan Magenheimer
2011-12-27T20:30:10Z

> 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