From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: status of the ext3/jbd error handling enhancement patches Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:37:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20081020233726.5682a278.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <48FC081D.60306@hitachi.com> <20081019221331.ddf6b8c2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081020124145.GB10698@mit.edu> <48FD75AF.6080507@hitachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Theodore Tso , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, adilger@sun.com, jack@suse.cz, sandeen@redhat.com To: Hidehiro Kawai Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:48076 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751167AbYJUGhv (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:37:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48FD75AF.6080507@hitachi.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:24:47 +0900 Hidehiro Kawai wrote: > >>One of the above patches (I forget which) breaks the build because it > >>expects the presence of Al Viro's VFS tree, and that hasn't been merged > >>yet. I need to wait and see if that merge will be happening (seems > >>unlikely) and if not, rework the patch against mainline. > > I see. Thank you for your work. > > > Strange; I don't recall any of the ext4 variants of the error handling > > patches requiring Al's VFS tree. And I thought all of them have been > > merged into Linus's tree at this point. > > I checked Al's VFS tree and I found commit > 6ac465f99b29f74ca5a62bc32a8772985d9a071b changes codes near where > one of my patch changes (in ext3/ext4_quota_on()), but not the same code. OK. Don't worry about it - I'll fix things up some time this week.