linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

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Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:36:29 -0800
From:	Phil Oester <kernel@...uxace.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 03:24:40AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 03:11, Phillip Lougher
> <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> Apparently I reviewed the code a while back - that grey cell must have
> >> died.  Does anyone else intend to review the code in that timeframe? If
> >> not, we might as well merge it now, if ever..
> >>
> >
> > I'll be very happy for a merge now, but of course it's not up to me :-(
> 
> I guess, it is hard to find a larger distro that does not merge the
> out-of-tree version to support their live-, and installer-cds. So,
> what argument is preventing a mainline merge now?

Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels
for squashfs.  Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days,
so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost
all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it???

Phil
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