From: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: ext4-mm-delalloc-ext4.patch
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:12:44 -0800
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 13:08 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:26:36 -0800
> Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 01:05 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > generic_commit_write() is scheduled for removal in 2.6.26 and is
> > > removed already from -mm.
> > > 
> > > Please switch to the new write_begin/write_end interface.
> > 
> > I have a patch for that, sent to linux-ext4 last week. I will merge it
> > to the parent patch and update in ext4 patch queue.
> > 
> > ext4: use write_begin/write_end in delalloc instead of prepare_write()
> > From: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
> 
> Thanks.  But this change still isn't at
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/ext4-patches/LATEST/broken-out/,
> so ext4 is still a no-build for me.
> 

Oh, sorry about the confusion.  What I mean by "ext4 patch queue" is a
cutting edge ext4 development tree, which is not intend for mm or
upstream inclusion.

I have asked Ted this morning to update the "official" ext4 patch queue
at kernel.org, which is visiable to you and the world. I can't update it
myself. 

Best regards,
Mingming