linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13]

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Message-Id: <20060830135503.98f57ff3.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:55:03 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, steved@...hat.com, trond.myklebust@....uio.no,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@...hat.com,
	nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock
 sharing [try #13]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:37:18 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote:
> 
> > > These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS and AFS.
> > 
> > <fercrissake>
> > 
> > Not interested.  Please go learn quilt, send incremental patches.
> 
> What's quilt able to do that StGIT can't?  AFAICT from quilt's manpage, it
> can't mail incremental patches, so how does it help anyway?
> 

It was just a suggestion.  Please:

- test the patches which are presently in -mm.  I don't even know if they
  work, and we prefer to send Linus working stuff.

- Send fine-grained incremental patches.  It's OK to do complete
  replacement patchsets when the code is new, but this stuff is supposed to
  be stabilised.

  It took me quite a lot of time to extract the incremental patches out
  of try#12 and I don't want to do it again, plus it's just another step in
  which errors can be introduced.

Why incremental patches?

- So we can see what changed and don't have to re-review the whole thing

- So the recipient doesn't have to re-fix the same pile of rejects each time.

- So fixes which came in via other sources don't get lost.
-
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