linux-ext4 - Re: 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 ext4 ?

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Message-Id: <20080403103922.a426e0c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:39:22 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
Cc:	ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 ext4 ?

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:18:43 -0800 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> ext4 is marked BROKEN in rc8-mm1. Wondering why ?
> Mingming is on vacation for a week. Is there anything
> we can help with to fix it ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Badari
> 
> config EXT4DEV_FS
>         tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development
> (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>         depends on EXPERIMENTAL
>         depends on BROKEN
> 

That's left over from when ext4 was calling generic_commit_write(), which
is removed from -mm.

ext4 was since fixed, but I never noticed that.  I'll drop
ext4-is-broken.patch.
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