linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 0/5] LZO and swap write failure patches for -mm

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Date:	Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:56:42 +0100
From:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...nedhand.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@...il.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/5] LZO and swap write failure patches for -mm

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 22:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd say go with the cleanups.  The code I've seen is going to be quite
> unmaintainable by any kernel developer.
> 
> Any fixes which come from upstream can be trivially applied by taking the
> diffs against the version of upstream we started with and manually applying
> them to our version.  If the diffs are too large and complex for that then
> a) we shouldn't be merging the code in its current state anyway and b) with
> the code as-is we couldn't effectively review or changelog those diffs, so
> we shouldn't apply them.
> 
> So just fork it and freeze it.

Ok, thanks for the decision.

Since I don't have too much faith in what Nitin has done with it, I'll
produce a version myself. In theory we should end up with identical code
so will be a sanity check of Nitin's code if nothing else.

Cheers,

Richard


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