linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

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Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:39:20 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>,
	David Brown <lkml@...idb.org>,
	Phil Oester <kernel@...uxace.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29


* Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:

> > At least IMHO.
> > 
> > ( What could _perhaps_ change the picture a bit IMO is drivers/staging/ i 
> >   think - we could take a far more active role in certain types of 
> >   projects that have been done out of tree typically, with no formal
> >   promise for compatibility - or something like that. )
> 
> So if staging would have existed +one year ago, we should probably have 
> included squashfs 3.3 at that time, and just have moved it to fs/ once 
> the V4 layout was finished?

might have been a possibility - although there's a notable absence of any 
filesystem drivers in the latest drivers/staging/ set.

Greg, is that just accidental (no one has submitted one yet) or is it some 
sort of policy?

	Ingo
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