Return-Path: Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com ([209.85.216.181]:49361 "EHLO mail-qy0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752264Ab0LPXOi (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:14:38 -0500 Received: by qyk12 with SMTP id 12so99417qyk.19 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:14:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D0A9D5A.1070708@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:14:34 -0500 From: Ric Wheeler To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Steve Dickson , trond.myklebust@netapp.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] NFS XDR clean up for 2.6.38 References: <20101214144747.2293.68070.stgit@matisse.1015granger.net> <4D0A6503.7010901@RedHat.com> <20101216230524.GA16760@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20101216230524.GA16760@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On 12/16/2010 06:05 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Steve, > > I think it's totally out of place to try to put back large work on the > whole nfs client for vendor interest in an absolute fringe feature. > > I think you should at least be a bit ashamed for even putting this > forward. > This is not us trying to block anything, just do an orderly testing of changes. Why do three "waves" of pNFS related changes and refactor code all at once? ric