linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] staging: ramster: move to new zcache2 code base

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Date:	Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:38:27 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, minchan@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, ngupta@...are.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] staging: ramster: move to new zcache2 code base

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 08:00:20PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 03:46:01PM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > Hi Greg --
> > 
> > gregkh> If you feel that the existing code needs to be dropped
> > gregkh> and replaced with a totally new version, that's fine with
> > gregkh> me.  It's forward progress, which is all that I ask for. 
> > (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1208.0/02240.html,
> > in reference to zcache, assuming applies to ramster as well)
> > 
> > Please apply for staging-next for the 3.7 window to move ramster forward.
> > Since AFAICT there have been no patches or contributions from others to
> > drivers/staging/ramster since it was merged, this totally new version
> > of ramster should not run afoul and the patches should apply to
> > 3.5 or 3.6-rcN.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> > 
> > When ramster was merged into staging at 3.4, it used a "temporarily" forked
> > version of zcache.  Code was proposed to merge zcache and ramster into
> > a new common redesigned codebase which both resolves various serious design
> > flaws and eliminates all code duplication between zcache and ramster, with
> > the result to replace "zcache".  Sadly, that proposal was blocked, so the
> > zcache (and tmem) code in drivers/staging/zcache and the zcache (and tmem)
> > code in drivers/staging/ramster continue to be different.
> 
> Right. They will diverge for now.

Konrad, can I get your Acked-by: for this series?  I need that before I
can apply it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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