From: Mingming Cao Subject: Re: Fw: Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:57:17 -0800 Message-ID: <1173851838.4361.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070312220426.2b1d7aaa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45F6BDC9.8080205@redhat.com> <1173799745.9662.4.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <20070313170748.3e0bb466.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1173839458.8125.5.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Reply-To: cmm@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , sandeen@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, astralstorm@gmail.com, kalpak@clusterfs.com To: Dave Kleikamp Return-path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:58285 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964953AbXCNF5V (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:57:21 -0400 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2E5vKC9013521 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:57:20 -0400 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l2E5vKKt056516 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:57:20 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l2E5vJKg014252 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:57:20 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1173839458.8125.5.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 21:30 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 17:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:29:05 -0500 Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 10:05 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > . > > > > There were later patches posted to the list after this version, I think, which > > > > are not yet in Ted's tree... I'll find some time today to test the "take3" version > > > > on x86_64, unless someone beats me to it. > > > > > > I didn't quite beat you to it, but I did make a diff to bring > > > 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 in tune with the "take3" patch. It makes the code easier > > > to understand, but I'm not sure if it contains anything to fix the bug. > > > Code inspection hasn't gotten me any closer to figuring out what's > > > wrong. > > > > > > Shaggy > > > > It's possible that I screwed up merging Ted's tree into mainline - it spat > > some rejects, and needs updating to 2.6.21-rc3. > > I think your merge of Ted's tree is okay, although his tree could use > some cleanup. The patch Eric sent on top of mine should clear up this > problem. I'll try to get Ted's tree up to date, or find someone with > some more spare time to take over maintenance. I would help maintain the tree, it does needs a fair amount of work and time. Ted has already started looking at using ABAT to automate the process of testing the ext4 git tree on all arch. This seems worth invest some time on this. Currently it seems he has been extremely busy with other duties so I am trying to help on this first. Mingming