From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] reiserfs fixes patch set
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:23:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4716998C.8050700@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071017151140.c5b782ef.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:02:10 -0400
> Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote:
>
>> This is a series of "safe" patches that have been in the openSUSE kernel
>> for a while now.
>>
>
> I'm not particularly happy seeing a large number of complex-looking patches
> against a not-very-well-maintained important filesystem more than a week
> into the merge window. It would have been far better to get this stuff
> sent a month ago.
>
> Now we're left with a choice between holding it all back for 2.5 months or
> just jamming it into mainline with basically no testing. I sure hope it
> got good testing in the suse kernel.
I'm fine being conservative here and just keeping them in -mm, then.
Depending on when our next release ends up being scheduled, I'll likely
have to maintain them out of tree anyway.
- -Jeff
- --
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-17 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 23:02 [patch 0/7] reiserfs fixes patch set Jeff Mahoney
2007-10-16 23:02 ` [patch 1/7] reiserfs: fix up lockdep warnings Jeff Mahoney
2007-10-16 23:02 ` [patch 2/7] reiserfs: dont use BUG when panicking Jeff Mahoney
2007-10-16 23:02 ` [patch 3/7] reiserfs: use is_reusable to catch corruption Jeff Mahoney
2007-10-16 23:02 ` [patch 4/7] reiserfs: fix usage of signed ints for block numbers Jeff Mahoney
2007-10-16 23:02 ` [patch 5/7] reiserfs: fix memset byte count during resize Jeff Mahoney
2007-10-16 23:02 ` [patch 6/7] reiserfs: remove first_zero_hint Jeff Mahoney
2007-10-18 18:02 ` Jeff Mahoney
2007-10-16 23:02 ` [patch 7/7] reiserfs: ignore on disk s_bmap_nr value Jeff Mahoney
2007-10-17 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-17 22:11 ` [patch 0/7] reiserfs fixes patch set Andrew Morton
2007-10-17 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 23:23 ` Jeff Mahoney [this message]
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