Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761653AbXHAGVT (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 02:21:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751159AbXHAGVJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 02:21:09 -0400 Received: from mail-gw3.sa.ew.hu ([212.108.200.82]:54476 "EHLO mail-gw3.sa.ew.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750868AbXHAGVH (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 02:21:07 -0400 To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no CC: chuck.lever@oracle.com, miklos@szeredi.hu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kzak@redhat.com, sfrench@samba.org, mark.fasheh@oracle.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com In-reply-to: <1185917255.6700.80.camel@localhost> (message from Trond Myklebust on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:27:35 -0400) Subject: Re: request for patches: showing mount options References: <46AA4AC5.2050200@oracle.com> <46AA51CA.7030105@oracle.com> <46AE01C2.3000008@oracle.com> <46AF450D.5020106@oracle.com> <46AFA6AB.8080208@oracle.com> <1185917255.6700.80.camel@localhost> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:20:20 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1481 Lines: 37 > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 17:16 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > > Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > It would be nice to have all this stuff in 2.6.24, which doesn't leave > > > a lot of time. > > > > Yes, that would be nice, but there's a lot of stuff that needs to get > > done before this. NFS IPv6, for example, is a higher priority than > > refactoring to remove /etc/mtab -- the US government has a new > > requirement in 2008 for IPv6 support in any software that it purchases, > > and NFS may be a stumbling block for distributors if it doesn't have it. > > > > So I'd say "no way" for 2.6.24, but it's really Trond's call to make. > > I never like to tell people what their priorities should be. If someone > is interested enough to do the work, then it will get done, however this > cannot make the top of my already-overloaded list of priorities for > 2.6.24, and it would appear that Chuck is busy too. > > Any other volunteers out there? I'm willing to help out. I could have basically fixed up all filesystems, but I think it's better if the maintainers do it and are aware that this needs to be looked at each time a new option is added. But there's no problem with making exceptions if the maintainers are busy. Miklos - 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/