From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: - disable-ext4.patch removed from -mm tree Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:57:25 -0800 Message-ID: <20080205175725.e318d089.akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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> <1202246803.3935.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1202259740.3935.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Theodore Tso , dhowells@redhat.com, "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: cmm@us.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:41275 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758526AbYBFB6O (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 20:58:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1202259740.3935.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:02:20 -0800 Mingming Cao wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:26 -0800, Mingming Cao wrote: > > 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 > > It seems to me the easiest way to bring ext4 patches back to mm tree, is > to carry above two patches in ext4 patch queue, like we did for other > ext4 patches that depend on generic code in the past. It doesn't matter a lot because I won't be doing another -mm until all this is merged up anyway. > So I added above two patches to ext4 patch queue, now that ext4 patches > could apply cleanly to linus git tree, and Andrew should able to easily > pull ext4 patches after removing the duplicated patches. > > Ted, I have the ext4 patch queue updated for this. This means that I merge part of the iget patch series, then twiddle thumbs until the ext4 tree merges, then merge the remainder of the iget series. So unless Ted intends to merge RSN I think it'd be preferable if I were to just merge the lot, sorry.