Re: fallocate-implementation-on-i86-x86_64-and-powerpc.patch (was:re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 10 2007 - 15:32:26 EST


On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:07:35 -0400
Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:15:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > So I dropped everything. Let's start again from scratch. I'd suggest that
> > for now we go with just an i386/x86_64 implementation, let the arch
> > maintainers wire things up when that has settled down.
>
> Ok, so no objections if we push the i386/x86_64 implementation (only),
> plus the ext4 support to Linus?
>

Sounds like a plan.

I haven't seriously looked at ext4 code in many months. When I did I found
the changes to be quite incomprehensible, very, very poorly commented and
with quite a lot of odd-looking things about which I asked but got, iirc,
no useful reply.

Hopefully it got better.

Which patches are you proposing merging into 2.6.23?
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