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Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:30:15 +0300
From:	Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@...il.com>
To:	Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Staging <driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	Lustre devel <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Future of Lustre in staging

On 11/20/15, Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From https://lwn.net/Articles/662979/
>
> --cut--
> Christoph complained a bit about the staging tree. He said that it
> breaks allmodconfig builds, but that problem was evidently fixed a while
> ago. He also dislikes the Lustre filesystem, which has been in staging
> for some time now; Greg agreed and said that he would like to delete it.
> It was generally agreed that the work being done on Lustre is not
> substantial enough to justify its continued presence. Christoph also
> said that the use of the staging tree for code that is about to be
> deleted could be improved; there are, he said, people doing white-space
> fixes on doomed code.
> --end--
>
> Could anyone clarify it?

AFAIK, Intel is going to work more harder on Lustre code, so the best
option would be to wait a bit.
Agreed, checkpatch fixes are just a mess..

>
> -thanks-
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Regards / Mit besten Grüßen,
Denis
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