Hi Mike,
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:33:51PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> On 2004.11.26 17:23, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
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> Hi Nathan, not to rush you or anything, but I was just curious as
> to how a patch like this gets into the actual kernel.
>
> I assume it's XFS CVS -> testing -> -mm kernel -> linus kernel ?
Its actually like this, for an XFS-only change (differs a bit
if there's a core kernel change, that adds in a -mm step near
the end):
Testing (my machines, several days/weeks depending on the change),
including nightly regression test runs.
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Internal review by other XFS developers.
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CVS on oss.sgi.com (via our internal ptools tree).
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Linus' kernel.
> I don't see anything in XFS CVS at
> http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/
> yet, am I looking in the right place ?
That's the right place; the first two steps are done, I expect
to push it into CVS sometime today, and I plan to merge it and
several other fixes into Linus' tree later this week or early
next week.
cheers.
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Nathan
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