linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/3] ext4: don't use quota reservation for speculative metadata blocks

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Date:	Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:52:53 +0400
From:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
To:	tytso@....edu
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ext4: don't use quota reservation for speculative metadata blocks

tytso@....edu writes:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 05:33:14PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
>> BTW I'm too familiar with cross-devel-tree process
>> If tytso@ will get the patchset will you get an quota-related patches
>> to linux-fs tree too? Otherwise everybody have to wait for ext4-tree
>> push to linus's tree and when to linux-fs.
>
> I've already asked Jan if he would mind my carrying the quota patches
> in the ext4 tree, since I believe there's less chance of patch
> collisions with upcoming changes in the quota tree than if they were
> carried in the quota tree and we had to worry about changes to the
> ext4 tree.
Yess. i do understand that both interesting in common quota-related peace.
>
> These patches are also low-risk enough (they'll either work or they
> won't, and it's not hard to desk-check them for correctness) that we
> could push them to Linus now before the merge window, and see if he's
> willing to take them.  I have some data corruption bugfixes I need to
> push to Linus anyway....  I dunno if Linus will be willing to take
> them, but that's the other approach.
>
> 					- Ted
Both options is too complex (as least for my tiny brain)
Is is possible to accept quota related patches in both(linux-fs and
ext4) tires at least in for-next branches. Seems that git is able to
detect equivalent patches via cherry-picking-like mechanisms.
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