From: Mingming Cao Subject: Re: - disable-ext4.patch removed from -mm tree Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:26:43 -0800 Message-ID: <1202246803.3935.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200802032018.m13KIGoC029855@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20080203122551.6830370a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080204013626.GE18392@mit.edu> <20080203191540.3cb2660b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080204150044.GK18392@mit.edu> Reply-To: cmm@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , dhowells@redhat.com, "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:59075 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760601AbYBEV0p (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:26:45 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m15LQgQa001358 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:26:42 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m15LQgx2233524 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:26:42 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m15LQggv028556 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:26:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080204150044.GK18392@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 10:00 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 07:15:40PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:36:26 -0500 Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:25:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > When I merge David's iget coversion patches this will instead wreck the > > > > ext4 patchset. > > > > > > That's ok, it shouldn't be hard for me to fix this up. How quickly > > > will you be able to merge David's iget converstion patches? > > > > They're about 1,000 patches back. > > OK, if you're not planning on pushing David's changes to Linus right > away, what if I pull in David's > > iget-stop-ext4-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-try.patch > > and push it plus some other ext4 bug fixes directly to Linus, and let > you know when that has happened so you can drop David's patch from > your queue? > > David's changes to ext4 can be applied standalone without the rest of > his series, so it would be safe to push that to Linus independently > and in advance of the rest of his series. I get compile error when builing ext4 patch queue with iget-stop-ext4-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-try.patch applied, against 2.6.24-git14. It seems iget-stop-ext4-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-try.patch depends on patches: [PATCH 01/31] Add an ERR_CAST() macro to complement ERR_PTR and co. [PATCH 03/32] IGET: Introduce a function to register iget failure Mingming > That should also help > reduce the number of inter-patch queue dependencies. > > Regards, > > - Ted > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html