linux-kernel - Re: [PULL] Re: bcache stability patches

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Message-ID: <5684A030.1040306@kernel.dk>
Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:25:36 -0700
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Cc:	Eric Wheeler <bcache@...ts.ewheeler.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Denis Bychkov <manover@...il.com>, g2p.code@...il.com,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.com>,
	Joshua Schmid <jschmid@...e.com>, linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stefan.bader@...onical.com,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.com>,
	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>,
	Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>
Subject: Re: [PULL] Re: bcache stability patches

On 12/30/2015 08:15 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:59:39AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Looking over these, most are really simple one-liners, and nothing sticks
>> out as being overly complicated. Kent, do you have any plans to maintain the
>> in-kernel bcache?
>
> Yeah - these patches are all fine, go ahead and pull.

Great, thanks.

> I may start doing maintainence again at some point (but if there's someone
> willing to step up and take over and do a good job of it, I'd gladly hand things
> off)

As long as we have a path into mainline for stability fixes, at least 
that's better than before.

Thanks Eric for collecting these. I've reformatted some of them a bit, 
not sure if that's github crappery, or if they came like that. It's 
pushed out now.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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