linux-kernel - Re: OOM panics with zram

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Message-ID: <4CABFB6F.2070800@vflare.org>
Date:	Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:30:39 -0400
From:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Driver Project <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OOM panics with zram

On 10/5/2010 10:36 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:29:34PM -0400, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>> On 10/5/2010 7:43 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 02:41:09PM -0400, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>>>> Also, please do not use linux-next/mainline version of compcache. Instead
>>>> just use version in the project repository here:
>>>> hg clone https://compcache.googlecode.com/hg/ compcache 
>>>
>>> What?  No, the reason we put this into the kernel was so that _everyone_
>>> could work on it, including the original developers.  Going off and
>>> doing development somewhere else just isn't ok.  Should I just delete
>>> this driver from the staging tree as you don't seem to want to work with
>>> the community at this point in time?
>>>
>>
>> Getting it out of -staging wasn't my intent. Community is the reason
>> that this project still exists.
>>
>>
>>>> This is updated much more frequently and has many more bug fixes over
>>>> the mainline. It will also be easier to fix bugs/add features much more
>>>> quickly in this repo rather than sending them to lkml which can take
>>>> long time.
>>>
>>> Yes, developing in your own sandbox can always be faster, but there is
>>> no feedback loop.
>>>
>>
>> I was finding it real hard to find time to properly discuss each patch
>> over LKML, so I thought of shifting focus to local project repository
>> and then later go through proper reviews.
> 
> So, should I delete the version in staging, or are you going to send
> patches to sync it up with your development version?
> 

Deleting it from staging would not help much. Much more helpful would
be to sync at least the mainline and linux-next version of the driver
so it's easier to develop against these kernel trees.  Initially, I
thought -staging means that any reviewed change can quickly make it
to *both* linux-next and more importantly -staging in mainline. Working/
Testing against mainline is much smoother than against linux-next.

Thanks,
Nitin


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