From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: A tree to pull into linux-next Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:52:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20090716115221.GA24875@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <20090715193742.GA18583@duck.suse.cz> <20090716164826.f4edbd42.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20090716114751.GE21267@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Jan Kara , Andrew Morton , Stephen Tweedie , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:38717 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753729AbZGPLwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:52:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090716114751.GE21267@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:48:26PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > > I am happy to include this, but (no offense) I would like to hear from > > the ext3 and jbd maintainers (cc'd) about it. > > > > The main isssue would be that akpm often has ext3 changes stashed in > -mm. Having a separate ext3 tree makes sense, and if Jan wants to > maintain it, that makes good sense to me, but we should get Andrew's > sign off, and Jan should make sure he has any ext3/jbd patches that > might be in -mm, to avoid any potential patch conflicts. Yeah. It's upto Andrew. I think he pulls linux-next so he should notice conflicts. Anyway, I don't mind pushing the changes through him if he likes it more that way but I've felt that he's rather busy and this hopefully helps him a bit... Honza -- Jan Kara SuSE CR Labs