Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262370AbVCVEp3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:45:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262473AbVCVEmR (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:42:17 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.92]:11794 "EHLO anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262472AbVCVEjt (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:39:49 -0500 Message-ID: <423F89F7.9090407@lougher.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:59:03 +0000 From: Phillip Lougher User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041012) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Josh Boyer , pavel@suse.cz, pmarques@grupopie.com, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS References: <20050314170653.1ed105eb.akpm@osdl.org> <20050314190140.5496221b.akpm@osdl.org> <423727BD.7080200@grupopie.com> <20050321101441.GA23456@elf.ucw.cz> <423EEEC2.9060102@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20050321190044.GD1390@elf.ucw.cz> <423F0C67.6000006@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20050321224937.GQ1390@elf.ucw.cz> <1111459265.20190.15.camel@windu.rchland.ibm.com> <20050321190436.28f76a65.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050321190436.28f76a65.akpm@osdl.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1043 Lines: 23 Andrew Morton wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: > >>This is a useful, stable, and _maintained_ filesystem and I'm a bit >> surprised that there is this much resistance to it's inclusion. > > > Although I've only been following things with half an eye, I don't think > there's a lot of resistance. It's just that squashfs's proponents are > being asked to explain the reasons why the kernel needs this filesystem. > That's something into which no effort was made in the initial patch release > (there's a lesson there). That is my fault. When I did the patch I was concentrating on providing code not on "selling" the filesystem. This is probably a cultural thing, coming from Britain, I actually thought such "strong arm" sales tatics would be tasteless and inappropropriate. - 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/