Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031082AbbEEUPZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2015 16:15:25 -0400 Received: from mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com ([67.231.145.42]:39965 "EHLO mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751995AbbEEUPV (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2015 16:15:21 -0400 Message-ID: <55492411.1010806@fb.com> Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 14:12:01 -0600 From: Jens Axboe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Support for write stream IDs References: <1430856181-19568-1-git-send-email-axboe@fb.com> <20150505200757.GA23902@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20150505200757.GA23902@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [192.168.54.13] X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe X-FB-Internal: Safe X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.14.151,1.0.33,0.0.0000 definitions=2015-05-05_06:2015-05-05,2015-05-05,1970-01-01 signatures=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 903 Lines: 22 On 05/05/2015 02:07 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:02:54PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> Unless there are any grave concerns here, I'd like to merge this for >> 4.2. > > Without a driver implementing the feature I don't see any reason to even > consider merging it. We can't merge the NVMe bits until the proposal is included/finalized. But this is a problem. I don't want to add this to the Facebook kernel until we know the API is stable, while I have no problem adding experimental NVMe changes since those can be easily updated without impacting applications. The latter is not true for the user interface. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/