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Message-Id: <20081218123601.11810b7f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:36:01 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: sfr@...b.auug.org.au, dhowells@...hat.com,
trond.myklebust@....uio.no, steved@...hat.com, rwheeler@...hat.com,
bfields@...ldses.org, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:24:20 -0500
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:44:18PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Added from today.
> >
> > Usual spiel: all patches in that branch must have been
> > posted to a relevant mailing list
> > reviewed
> > unit tested
> > destined for the next merge window (or the current release)
> > *before* they are included.
>
> I don't think we want fscache for .29 yet. I'd rather let the
> credential code settle for one release, and have more time for actually
> reviewing it properly and have it 100% ready for .30.
>
I don't believe that it has yet been convincingly demonstrated that we
want to merge it at all.
It's a huuuuuuuuge lump of new code, so it really needs to provide
decent value. Can we revisit this? Yet again? What do we get from
all this?
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