From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: A tree to pull into linux-next Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:15:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20090720231535.5e6a927a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090715193742.GA18583@duck.suse.cz> <20090716164826.f4edbd42.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20090716114751.GE21267@mit.edu> <20090716115221.GA24875@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20090721160852.65038f6c.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Theodore Tso , Jan Kara , Stephen Tweedie , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger To: Stephen Rothwell Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33503 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751504AbZGUGQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:16:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090721160852.65038f6c.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:08:52 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:52:21 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: > > > > > 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... > > Any comments? Sure, I'm OK with sending ext3/jbd stuff in Jan's direction. Just don't break it ;)