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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:15:44 +0100
From: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH 00/16] Squashfs: compressed read-only filesystem
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Alex Riesen wrote:
> 2008/10/17 Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>:
>> There are 16 patches in the patch set, and the patches are against the
>> latest linux-next tree (linux 2.6.27-next-20081016).
> 
> You better don't base anything off linux-next. These are not stable: there
> can be even something in the tree you mentioned which will never end
> up in the mainline and if your patches depend on it they wont apply to
> something like v2.6.26.2.

Definately, there's some d_obtain_alias stuff in linux-next which has 
been there since linux-2.6.27-rc4-next.  I thought it would make it into 
the final 2.6.27 but it didn't.

I thought linux-next *was* the tree that new patches should be based 
off.  However, the relationship between linux-2.6.git, linux-next.git, 
and the  -mm patch series seems to be a little vague to me, not to 
mention where the linux-staging tree fits into all this.

Phillip
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