Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760300AbXEPPq6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:46:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755943AbXEPPqu (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:46:50 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:34894 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755123AbXEPPqt (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:46:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:34:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Woodhouse Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SvZybg==?= Engel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Albert Cahalan , Thomas Gleixner , Jan Engelhardt , Evgeniy Polyakov , Pekka Enberg , Greg KH , Ingo Oeser Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three Message-Id: <20070516083408.dcd9dd78.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1179317240.2859.222.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <20070515151919.GA32510@lazybastard.org> <20070515133759.9ee434a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1179317240.2859.222.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 584 Lines: 14 On Wed, 16 May 2007 20:07:18 +0800 David Woodhouse wrote: > > It's strange and a bit regrettable that an fs would have dependency on MTD, > > really. > > Why? Other file systems has dependencies on BLOCK or on NET. It seems > entirely normal to me. Reduced testability, mainly. Also potentially reduced usefulness. - 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/