linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] fscache rewrite -- please drop for now

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Message-ID: <1442569.1598548486@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:14:46 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
        Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@...hat.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
        linux-cachefs@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
        ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] fscache rewrite -- please drop for now

Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org> wrote:

> Should I submit patches to you or wait until Linus merges it next cycle
> and send them directly?
> 
> I see Jeff's ceph patches are still in his tree's ceph-fscache-iter
> branch and I don't see them anywhere in your tree.

I really want them to all go in the same window, but there may be a
requirement for some filesystem-specific sets (eg. NFS) to go via the
maintainer tree.

Btw, at the moment, I'm looking at making the fscache read helper support the
new ->readahead() op.

David