Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261830AbVANTIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:08:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261420AbVANTG5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:06:57 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:39942 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261343AbVANS7g (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:59:36 -0500 Message-ID: <41E8173F.2000805@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:02:23 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kasper Sandberg CC: Andrew Morton , LKML Mailinglist Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 References: <20050114002352.5a038710.akpm@osdl.org><20050114002352.5a038710.akpm@osdl.org> <1105707861.6471.1.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1105707861.6471.1.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2607 Lines: 59 Kasper Sandberg wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 00:23 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm1/ >> >> >>- Added bk-xfs to the -mm "external trees" lineup. >> >>- Added the Linux Trace Toolkit (and hence relayfs). Mainly because I >> haven't yet taken as close a look at LTT as I should have. Probably neither >> have you. >> >> It needs a bit of work on the kernel<->user periphery, which is not a big >> deal. >> >> As does relayfs, IMO. It seems to need some regularised way in which a >> userspace relayfs client can tell relayfs what file(s) to use. LTT is >> currently using some ghastly stick-a-pathname-in-/proc thing. Relayfs >> should provide this service. >> >> relayfs needs a closer look too. A lot of advanced instrumentation >> projects seem to require it, but none of them have been merged. Lots of >> people say "use netlink instead" and lots of other people say "err, we think >> relayfs is better". This is a discussion which needs to be had. >> >>- The 2.6.10-mm3 announcement was munched by the vger filters, sorry. One of >> the uml patches had an inopportune substring in its name (oh pee tee hyphen >> oh you tee). Nice trick if you meant it ;) >> >>- Big update to the ext3 extended attribute support. agruen, tridge and sct >> have been cooking this up for a while. samba4 proved to be a good >> stress test. >> >>- davej's "2.6 post-Halloween features" document has been added to -mm as >> Documentation/feature-list-2.6.txt in the hope that someone will review it >> and help keep it up-to-date. >> >>- Added FUSE (filesystem in userspace) for people to play with. Am agnostic >> as to whether it should be merged (haven't read it at all closely yet, >> either), but I am impressed by the amount of care which has obviously gone >> into it. Opinions sought. > > > i really believe fuse is a good thing to have merged, i use it, and it > works really really good. my vote is to get it in I like the idea, but I also like the practice of letting a feature like this sit in -mm for a few weeks or even a month until people have a chance to break^H^H^H^H^Htest it a bit. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/