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Date:	Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:29:34 -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 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.

Thanks,
Nitin
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