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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
	sct@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fs/jbd/journal.c: cleanups
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:28:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080218132858.GA12568@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080218131209.GB21080@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:12:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> If me resending this old patch collides with something finally getting a 
> user this part of my patch shouldn't be applied now (but you might get 
> it again in 6 months if it's still unused...).
> 
> But generally such conflicts would become visible if "known development 
> trees that are intended for mainline" were in -mm.

It *has* been in -mm, except for periods when akpm has dropped it due
to conflicts due to the "must have an in-tree user" doctrinaire
attitude due to a conflict with the r/o bind patch.

Did you actually try to do a compile test, or only made sure the patch
would apply?  The patch won't collide at application time, but it
would when you compile it....

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-18 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-17  8:19 Adrian Bunk
2008-02-18  7:04 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-02-18  7:12   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-18 11:49     ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-18 12:57       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-18 13:31         ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-18 13:55           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-18 13:12       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-18 13:28         ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-02-27 19:39           ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-18 13:31         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-18 15:11           ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-18 16:22             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-27 21:20   ` [2.6 patch] unexport journal_update_superblock Adrian Bunk

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