On Sat, 12 May 2007 17:53:50 +1000 David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:24:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > btw, could we please get these patches reviewed and applied to the xfs tree?
> > Or nacked?
> >
> > I seem to be hanging on to XFS patches for a inexplicably long time.
> > Thanks ;)
>
> That's my backlog catching up on me. The cause of that went out for
> review earlier today :/
>
> The first two patches have been in my quilt series for quite some
> time; one of them hit the xfs-dev tree earlier this afternoon. I was
> just looking at the shrinker one a little before these came in -
> something told me I better hurry up.
ok ;)
> The zero_user_page() patch - I didn't realise I needed to pick that
> up; I saw the patches go past and saw that you'd picked them all up
> and thought they'd all be sent in one batch and there was nothing I
> needed to do. My mistake. I'll pick those up in future. How are
> merges to Linus normally handled in that case? The core
> infrastructure goes first then all the other trees get merged in?
Well I could have merged them all in one hit, and I did do so for the
maintainerless filesystems, and for the filesytems which I allegedly
maintain.
But once the core code was merged, the per-filesystem updates are optional
things and I feel it's best to feed things like that through the official
maintainers, get them to review it better, put it through private testing,
make their own decisions about timing, etc.
If you explicitly tell me "please send that to Linus" then I of course can
do so.
> I'll push these (and the other fixes I just checked in) to the XFS
> git tree next week so you can pull them from there. We've neglected
> that tree since Nathan left - we're still picking up all the balls
> he was juggling....
OK, thanks. Please do keep the git tree up to date - it does get you a
decent bit of early external testing. Plus it give me visibility of
forthcoming clashes between your new stuff and other people's new stuff.
> > (Of course I won't know when it's been applied because the XFS tree is
> > sekkrit. Hint.)
>
> We do post commit messages to the xfs list - is there somewhere else
> you'd like them sent? Or would updating the git tree as we commit patches
> to the master tree be sufficient?
>
Sync promptly with git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6, please.
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