Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755339AbXKGQcS (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:32:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753750AbXKGQcE (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:32:04 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-37.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.87]:48216 "EHLO anchor-post-37.mail.demon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751079AbXKGQcD (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:32:03 -0500 Message-ID: <4731E880.6010303@lougher.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:32:00 +0000 From: Phillip Lougher User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (X11/20070824) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: maximilian attems CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released References: <472EFACA.1090308@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20071105115624.GJ14432@baikonur.stro.at> In-Reply-To: <20071105115624.GJ14432@baikonur.stro.at> 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: 1285 Lines: 32 maximilian attems wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:13:14AM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote: > >> The next stage after this release is to fix the one remaining blocking issue >> (filesystem endianness), and then try to get Squashfs mainlined into the >> Linux kernel again. >> > > that would be very cool! Yes, it would be cool :) Five years is a long time to maintain something out of tree, especially recently when there's been so many minor changes to the VFS interface between kernel releases. > with my hat as debian kernel maintainer i'd be very relieved to see it > mainlined. i don't know of any major distro that doesn't ship it. > I don't know of any major distro that doesn't ship Squashfs either (except arguably Slackware). Putting my other hat on (one of the Ubuntu kernel maintainers) I don't think Squashfs has caused distros that many problems because it is an easy patch to apply (it doesn't touch that many kernel files), but it is always good to minimise the differences from the stock kernel.org kernel. Phillip - 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/