From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423123AbXBBGCc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:02:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423114AbXBBGCc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:02:32 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:45744 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423112AbXBBGCb (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:02:31 -0500 Message-ID: <45C2D3F0.9050907@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:02:24 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier CC: NeilBrown , Andrew Morton , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 14] knfsd: Preparation for IPv6 support in NFS server. References: <20070202153531.18622.patches@notabene> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roland Dreier wrote: > > They are mostly from Chuck Level and make preparating for IPv6 support > > in the NFS server. > > They are *not* for 2.6.20, but should be ok for .21. > > Out of curiousity, does this patch series reduce the delta between the > NFS/RDMA tree and mainline Linux? In other words does this bring > NFS/RDMA closer to merging? NFS/RDMA is IMO more than a little bit questionable, and the likely userbase is also quite small. I'm not sure its worth a mainline merge at this point. Jeff