linux-kernel - Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches

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Message-ID: <12273.1230563075@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:04:35 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm>,
	nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org, hch@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, steved@...hat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, rwheeler@...hat.com,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Subject: Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> And that of course means that many many 2.6.28 patches which I am
> maintaining will need significant rework to apply on top of linux-next,
> and then they won't apply to mainline.  Or that linux-next will not apply
> on top of those patches.  Mainly memory management.

Significant rework to many many patches?  The FS-Cache patches don't have all
that much impact outside of their own directories, AFS and NFS.

> Please drop the NFS tree until after -rc1.
> 
> Guys, this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/27/173

Okay, that's a reasonable request.

David
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