Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:39:30 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>, sct@redhat.com,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fs/jbd/journal.c: cleanups
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:28:58AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:12:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > If me resending this old patch collides with something finally getting a 
> > user this part of my patch shouldn't be applied now (but you might get 
> > it again in 6 months if it's still unused...).
> > 
> > But generally such conflicts would become visible if "known development 
> > trees that are intended for mainline" were in -mm.
> 
> It *has* been in -mm, except for periods when akpm has dropped it due
> to conflicts due to the "must have an in-tree user" doctrinaire
> attitude due to a conflict with the r/o bind patch.

OK, that's bad luck.

> Did you actually try to do a compile test, or only made sure the patch
> would apply?  The patch won't collide at application time, but it
> would when you compile it....

Yes, I do test compilations of all of my patches.

But I don't have an overview of all development trees for all 
subsystems.

> 						- Ted

cu
Adrian

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