Return-Path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50768 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753262Ab0LPXlC (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:41:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:40:58 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ric Wheeler Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Steve Dickson , trond.myklebust@netapp.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] NFS XDR clean up for 2.6.38 Message-ID: <20101216234058.GA17940@infradead.org> References: <20101214144747.2293.68070.stgit@matisse.1015granger.net> <4D0A6503.7010901@RedHat.com> <20101216230524.GA16760@infradead.org> <4D0AA11A.2010307@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4D0AA11A.2010307@gmail.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 06:30:34PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > This has nothing to do with shame or conspiracy, it has to do with > doing changes in an orderly way so we can test and stabilize things > in the upstream kernel. > > Changing both at once is not good for upstream or distros in my opinion, Steve's mail reads pretty different from that. But it doesn't really matter as it doesn't make any sense - as Chuck has explained theres zero overlap between the XDR decoder changes and pnfs features anyway. And if there was it's pretty clear something that the about 98% of the userbase that's using NFSv3 uses should have more priority over the 0.5% that are planning to maybe possibly use pnfs in the next decade.