Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932582Ab0FEI2z (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jun 2010 04:28:55 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:47280 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932459Ab0FEI2x (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jun 2010 04:28:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4C0A0AB6.20206@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:28:38 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Minchan Kim , Nitin Gupta , Greg KH , Ed Tomlinson , Hugh Dickins , Cyp , driverdev , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Support generic I/O requests References: <1275379286-10453-1-git-send-email-ngupta@vflare.org> <1275379286-10453-2-git-send-email-ngupta@vflare.org> <20100604121957.d9bc55ae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100604121957.d9bc55ae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1293 Lines: 28 Andrew Morton wrote: >> I thought zram is related to memory management a little bit. >> >> What's the criteria? > > Yes, and this is something which bothers me a bit about the -staging > process. Code gets in there largely under the radar of the people who > work in that area. It gets "matured" for a while and the developer > thinks it's all ready to go into "mainline" and .... then what? > Someone needs to yank the code out of -staging and tell the interested > parties "hey, look at this". And at this stage, they might say "hell > no", or request large changes and the developer who thought everything > was all ready to go would be justifiably upset. Yeah, that's what I assumed would happen here. When the code in -staging is "good enough", Nitin would submit squashed patches for inclusion review and when everyone is happy, we'd merge the code including full history from -staging. Btw, ramzswap and zram have been discussed openly on LKML. I guess Nitin should have CC'd linux-mm as well for you to see it Andrew? Pekka -- 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/