Re: [PATCH 00/60] xfs: patch queue for 3.11

[Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/19/2013 10:44 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:35:37AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> > >Dave,
> > >
> > >On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 02:50:08PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > > >This is my patch queue for 3.11 as it stands right now.
> > >
> > >Getting all of this in for 3.11 does not strike me as being realistic.  You
> > >need to think about how this can be split up.  I see that you have rebased
> > >Jeff's log size validation patch set after your rearrangement.  I'd rather
> > >you'd taken Jeff's series first and then made your changes.  Now we can't pull
> > >in Jeff's work without pulling in a bunch of rearrangement that hasn't been
> > >fully discussed.  You have also crowded out Chandra's quota work.  We had an
> > >agreement with him to go for 3.11 with that work which you have broken.
> I think 3.11 is a realistic target for all the code movearound, but
> maybe not as part of the normal pull request for -rc1.  If we make sure
> it's really moving code around and not changing it I think a sending a
> second pull request to Linus saying this is just code movearounds we
> wanted to do when the churn causes least problems with actual code work
> he should be fine with it.
Just to chime in here, we have a lot of resources focused on testing these XFS 
updates both internally with our QA team and with a range of other RH partners.
I am confident we can shake out any integration concerns in time.

Thanks!

Ric