Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (81 mails)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>]

On Tue 2008-02-05 17:48:24, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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> Michael Matz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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> > > > > > 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?  :)
> > > > I don't see us deprecating reiser3.  I don't know if the xattr patches 
> > > > are 
> > > > necessary for xattrs to work on reiser at all, but I do know that we use 
> > > > xattrs, so that too needs to continue to work.
> > > I think I misunderstood Greg's question here.
> > >
> > > ReiserFS extended attributes have been in mainline since, oh, 2.6.14 or
> > > something. They're a fact. The patches are there to make the code not
> > > suck so much.
> >
> > I see.  Well, as Greg has a point about the 7 years it probably makes 
> > sense to make the code suck as little as possible.  I don't know upstreams 
> > "community" of reiser3, but perhaps they also would appreciate a little 
> > nicer code :-)
>
> It works out that "Upstream" is still the old Namesys guys, but I end up
> doing most of the work. When I do come up with something, they don't
> really comment on it. I might as well just merge these against -mm and
> let them stew for a revision before pushing them out to mainline. I'm

That sounds like a way to go. You can also make yourself maintainer of
reiser...
                                                        Pavel
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