linux-kernel - Re: fallocate-implementation-on-i86-x86_64-and-powerpc.patch (was: re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:31:08 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Amit Arora <aarora@...ibm.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: fallocate-implementation-on-i86-x86_64-and-powerpc.patch (was:
 re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:07:35 -0400
Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:15:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > So I dropped everything.  Let's start again from scratch.  I'd suggest that
> > for now we go with just an i386/x86_64 implementation, let the arch
> > maintainers wire things up when that has settled down.
> 
> Ok, so no objections if we push the i386/x86_64 implementation (only),
> plus the ext4 support to Linus?
> 

Sounds like a plan.

I haven't seriously looked at ext4 code in many months.  When I did I found
the changes to be quite incomprehensible, very, very poorly commented and
with quite a lot of odd-looking things about which I asked but got, iirc,
no useful reply.

Hopefully it got better.

Which patches are you proposing merging into 2.6.23?
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