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Date:	Tue, 5 Oct 2010 19:36:24 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Driver Project <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OOM panics with zram

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:29:34PM -0400, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> On 10/5/2010 7:43 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 02:41:09PM -0400, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> >> Also, please do not use linux-next/mainline version of compcache. Instead
> >> just use version in the project repository here:
> >> hg clone https://compcache.googlecode.com/hg/ compcache 
> > 
> > What?  No, the reason we put this into the kernel was so that _everyone_
> > could work on it, including the original developers.  Going off and
> > doing development somewhere else just isn't ok.  Should I just delete
> > this driver from the staging tree as you don't seem to want to work with
> > the community at this point in time?
> >
> 
> Getting it out of -staging wasn't my intent. Community is the reason
> that this project still exists.
> 
> 
> >> This is updated much more frequently and has many more bug fixes over
> >> the mainline. It will also be easier to fix bugs/add features much more
> >> quickly in this repo rather than sending them to lkml which can take
> >> long time.
> > 
> > Yes, developing in your own sandbox can always be faster, but there is
> > no feedback loop.
> > 
> 
> I was finding it real hard to find time to properly discuss each patch
> over LKML, so I thought of shifting focus to local project repository
> and then later go through proper reviews.

So, should I delete the version in staging, or are you going to send
patches to sync it up with your development version?

thanks,

greg k-h
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