linux-ext4 - Re: A tree to pull into linux-next

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:08:52 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Subject: Re: A tree to pull into linux-next

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:52:21 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> 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?
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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