linux-kernel - Re: [0/7] Distributed storage for drivers/staging merge request

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Message-Id: <20090113161221.b23510b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:12:21 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	zbr@...emap.net, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dst@...emap.net
Subject: Re: [0/7] Distributed storage for drivers/staging merge request

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:01:30 -0800
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> > Really. I implemented all the suggestions I got from the previous
> > reviews (including spaces and documentations, which btw were the only
> > ones :) way too long ago and did not get any other complaints. Actually
> > the tree I sent to you does not contain documentation update I have in
> > the own tree (pointed during review), so this can be added as todo entry :)
> > My fault I found that too late.
> 
> Hm, then why can't this whole thing just go into fs/dst/ right now?
> It's self-contained, so there shouldn't be any special "must live in
> staging" rule for filesystems before adding them.
> 
> We take new drivers at almost any point in the release cycle, why should
> filesystems be any different?

Well...  the case for merging drivers is usually pretty simple - the
hardware exists, so we need the driver.

Whereas the "do we need this" case for new filesystems isn't this simple.
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