linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.31 -mm merge plans

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Message-Id: <20090610121633.d678fc8b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:16:33 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.31 -mm merge plans

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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:08:41 +0100
Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:51:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > proc-merge-arrayc-into-basec.patch
> > proc-merge-arrayc-into-basec-checkpatch-fixes.patch
> 
> I'm not sure that there's any point in that.  Sure, we can slap two
> files together; what the hell for?  Both are quite large, there's
> a (relatively) sane separation of code between them (misc. files
> contents in /proc/<pid>/ vs. directory structure and symlinks in
> there, more or less) and I don't see any benefit in mashing them
> together.  Up to Alexey, but IMO that's pointless.

No strong opinions here.

AFAIK Alexey isn't doing procfs any more?
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