Alan Brown wrote:
>
> 1: Judicious use of the --exclude-from directive will keep your patch
> virgin vs third party stuff you may have incorporated to your source
> tree.
>
> Right now your filesystem patch is fundamentally incompatible with
> things like Alan Cox's jumbo patches because of this.
>
> Also your inclusion of non-related code may interfere with application
> of other single patches people may be applying.
>
> 2: Why submit these to Linus? The guy is snowed under and has more
> pressing priorities right now in his life than including patches to
> stable code (other than bugfixes).
>
> You're really better off cleaning up your patches and feeding them to
> Alan Cox. There's a large pool of ac-testers out there, your code will
> get tested and debugged faster this way and you'll end up in the
> mainstream kernel tree that much more quickly.
I want to second this.
New functionality like drivers or even filesystems should first be
included in the -ac series of the Linux kernel.
The other option would be to include it in 2.5 - but this will give
you: no xfs in "user" kernel for the next year ;)
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