-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:26:03PM -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
Hi all,
As I'm going to be the one trying to manage the 11.0 kernel release, I figured it was time to take a look at all of the patches we have in our tree, and see why they are not upstream already.
So, here's a breakdown of all 228 patches in our "normal" kernel tree (I'm ignoring the -rt tree right now, that's just crazy at the moment...)
I'd like all of the developers here to at least respond with a reason why their patches are in the tree and not in mainline already. If they patch will show up in 2.6.25, let us know, and we can properly mark it as such. If it's a feature that isn't upstream, and it isn't obvious why, please let us know. reiserfs patches: patches.suse/reiserfs-add-per-file-data-ordered-mode.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-add-reiserfs_error.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-buffer-info-for-balance.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-cleanup-path-funcs.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-consistent-messages.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-eliminate-per-super-xattr-lock.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-journaled-xattrs.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-kill-xattr-readdir.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-make-per-inode-xattr-locking-more-fine-grained.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-mount-count patches.suse/reiserfs-rearrange-journal-abort.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-reiserfs-warning.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-reiserfs_info.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-reiserfs_panic.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-remove-i_has_xattr_dir.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-remove-link-detection.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-rename-._.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-rename-p_._.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-rename-p_s_bh.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-rename-p_s_inode.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-rename-p_s_sb.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-rename-p_s_tb.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-selinux.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-simplify-xattr-internal-file-lookups-opens.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-strip-whitespace.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-use-generic-xattr-handlers.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-use-reiserfs_error.diff patches.suse/reiserfs-xattrs-noatime.diff are these going to show up in 2.6.25? I doubt it. Probably 2.6.26 if I can get akpm to accept them into -mm for some testing. I've sent them to the reiserfs list several times with very little feedback. There's not a whole lot of interest in maintaining reiser3.
Just push them to him, if they are real bugfixes, they should go in.
None of them are bug fixes. They're all enhancements to either behavior or code readability.
I also imagine that bringing up the reiser3 xattr code will be like a third rail, but it is what it is.
Do we have people that rely on it in our kernels? Do we want to drag it along for 7 more years? :)
Yeah, actually. Anyone with reiserfs setup by YaST who hasn't disabled it is using it. The code works. That's not the problem. The problem is that it's the file i/o in kernel space blight that everyone rants about when they see it. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHqOS3LPWxlyuTD7IRAje6AJ0SF074gTXJXvwYySWjotO7C9zP1wCgppMl DaE0gica0HzZJTub0O4JqLc= =o/sC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org