linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Various cleanups/fixes to zcache (v3).

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Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:57:40 -0500
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various cleanups/fixes to zcache (v3).

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 09:29:26AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 09:02:47AM -0800, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@...uxfoundation.org]
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various cleanups/fixes to zcache (v3).
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 08:56:01AM -0800, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > > > > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk@...cle.com]
> > > > > Subject: [PATCH] Various cleanups/fixes to zcache (v3).
> > > > >
> > > > > From Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> # This line is ignored.
> > > > > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
> > > > > Subject: [PATCH] Various cleanups/fixes to zcache (v3).
> > > > > In-Reply-To:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hey Greg,
> > > > >
> > > > > These patches do various cleanups of the zcache driver. The majority of the
> > > > > work is just to move all the different counters out to a debug file. The next
> > > > > step would be to figure out which ones are actually pertient and which can
> > > > > go under the knife. Oh, and also fix some of the compiler warnings.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is based on top of ommit 76426daf50d5df38893cc189e9ccd026093debc8
> > > > > ("staging/zcache: Fix/improve zcache writeback code, tie to a config option")
> > > > > so should apply cleanly to your tree.
> > > > >
> > > > > Please apply.
> > > >
> > > > Useful cleanups.
> > > >
> > > > Hopefully not too late for 3.9-rc0.
> > > 
> > > You all did see my "the staging tree is closed except for bugfixes for
> > > 3.9" message last week, right?
> > 
> > Oops, sorry, no I missed that.
> >  
> > > Sorry, this will have to wait for 3.10.
> > 
> > No problem, no bugs fixed here, though I expect we'll see
> > the same complaints posted again about the compiler warnings.
> 
> Then why not just redo that one patch, and send it to me, and then
> rebase all of the other patches on top of it?  That way I can accept the
> "fix the complier warnings" patch now, and the rest can wait.

Aye aye captain. Going to send them tomorrow (zbud/zcache).
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