2008-04-03 17:18:12

by Badari Pulavarty

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Subject: 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 ext4 ?

Hi Andrew,

ext4 is marked BROKEN in rc8-mm1. Wondering why ?
Mingming is on vacation for a week. Is there anything
we can help with to fix it ?

Thanks,
Badari

config EXT4DEV_FS
tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development
(EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
depends on BROKEN




2008-04-03 17:39:29

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 ext4 ?

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:18:43 -0800 Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> ext4 is marked BROKEN in rc8-mm1. Wondering why ?
> Mingming is on vacation for a week. Is there anything
> we can help with to fix it ?
>
> Thanks,
> Badari
>
> config EXT4DEV_FS
> tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development
> (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> depends on BROKEN
>

That's left over from when ext4 was calling generic_commit_write(), which
is removed from -mm.

ext4 was since fixed, but I never noticed that. I'll drop
ext4-is-broken.patch.