linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] Support generic I/O requests

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Message-ID: <4C0A0AB6.20206@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:28:38 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Ed Tomlinson <edt@....ca>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Cyp <cyp561@...il.com>, driverdev <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Support generic I/O requests

Andrew Morton wrote:
>> I thought zram is related to memory management a little bit.
>>
>> What's the criteria?
> 
> Yes, and this is something which bothers me a bit about the -staging
> process.  Code gets in there largely under the radar of the people who
> work in that area.  It gets "matured" for a while and the developer
> thinks it's all ready to go into "mainline" and ....  then what? 
> Someone needs to yank the code out of -staging and tell the interested
> parties "hey, look at this".  And at this stage, they might say "hell
> no", or request large changes and the developer who thought everything
> was all ready to go would be justifiably upset.

Yeah, that's what I assumed would happen here. When the code in -staging 
is "good enough", Nitin would submit squashed patches for inclusion 
review and when everyone is happy, we'd merge the code including full 
history from -staging.

Btw, ramzswap and zram have been discussed openly on LKML. I guess Nitin 
should have CC'd linux-mm as well for you to see it Andrew?

			Pekka
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