Re: [0/7] Distributed storage for drivers/staging merge request

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 04:01:30PM -0800, Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Really. I implemented all the suggestions I got from the previous
> > reviews (including spaces and documentations, which btw were the only
> > ones :) way too long ago and did not get any other complaints. Actually
> > the tree I sent to you does not contain documentation update I have in
> > the own tree (pointed during review), so this can be added as todo entry :)
> > My fault I found that too late.
> 
> Hm, then why can't this whole thing just go into fs/dst/ right now?
> It's self-contained, so there shouldn't be any special "must live in
> staging" rule for filesystems before adding them.

Its a block device not a filesystem, so it is more like a driver.
All original patches placed it into the drivers/block/dst without touch
any external files except makefile and kconfig.

> We take new drivers at almost any point in the release cycle, why should
> filesystems be any different?

I suppose this is a rethorical question, since there is no answer :)

> Linus, Andrew, any objections?

Hi there!

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	Evgeniy Polyakov
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