Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Dec 18 2008 - 15:42:07 EST


On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:24:20 -0500
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:44:18PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Added from today.
> >
> > Usual spiel: all patches in that branch must have been
> > posted to a relevant mailing list
> > reviewed
> > unit tested
> > destined for the next merge window (or the current release)
> > *before* they are included.
>
> I don't think we want fscache for .29 yet. I'd rather let the
> credential code settle for one release, and have more time for actually
> reviewing it properly and have it 100% ready for .30.
>

I don't believe that it has yet been convincingly demonstrated that we
want to merge it at all.

It's a huuuuuuuuge lump of new code, so it really needs to provide
decent value. Can we revisit this? Yet again? What do we get from
all this?

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