Re: Add two VFS exports used by POHMELFS

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:56:30AM -0800, Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > POHMELFS is a very high-performance parallel network filesystem with
> > coherent local cache of data and metadata. It entered maintenance mode
> > and is being prepared for the next submission cycle.
> > I decided first to push it into the drivers/staging which was acked
> > by Greg for the wider testing and review and move into the vanilla tree
> > in the next merge window.
> > 
> > POHMELFS needs two exports from the core VFS: add_to_page_cache_lru and
> > __lock_page_killable.
> > 
> > Please apply given patch to the current tree.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hm, usually we take exports at the same time the user goes into the
> tree.
> 
> I don't mind adding these exports with the same patch series to add your
> filesystem to the drivers/staging tree, if Andrew and the other vfs
> developers agree it's a sane thing to be exporting.

Ok, I can push them together (just right now :), Andrew, Linus, do you
agree to export those functions?

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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