From: Ric Wheeler Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] NFS XDR clean up for 2.6.38 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:30:34 -0500 Message-ID: <4D0AA11A.2010307@gmail.com> References: <20101214144747.2293.68070.stgit@matisse.1015granger.net> <4D0A6503.7010901@RedHat.com> <20101216230524.GA16760@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Steve Dickson , trond.myklebust@netapp.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:41748 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753056Ab0LPXai (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:30:38 -0500 Received: by qwa26 with SMTP id 26so104551qwa.19 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:30:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20101216230524.GA16760@infradead.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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, Ric