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Message-ID: <20090113165630.GA25450@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:56:30 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add two VFS exports used by POHMELFS

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:43:46PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> POHMELFS is a very high-performance parallel network filesystem with
> coherent local cache of data and metadata. It entered maintenance mode
> and is being prepared for the next submission cycle.
> I decided first to push it into the drivers/staging which was acked
> by Greg for the wider testing and review and move into the vanilla tree
> in the next merge window.
> 
> POHMELFS needs two exports from the core VFS: add_to_page_cache_lru and
> __lock_page_killable.
> 
> Please apply given patch to the current tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>

Hm, usually we take exports at the same time the user goes into the
tree.

I don't mind adding these exports with the same patch series to add your
filesystem to the drivers/staging tree, if Andrew and the other vfs
developers agree it's a sane thing to be exporting.

thanks,

greg k-h
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