Re: Reiser4 and linux 2.6.0

[Tupshin Harper <tupshin@tupshin.com>]

Hans Reiser wrote:

> Nikita Danilov wrote:
>
>> Tupshin Harper writes:
>> > Larry was kind enough to send me the patch of his results of this 
>> merge, > but unfortunately it suffered from the same incompleteness 
>> problems that > the recent diffs on the namesys ftp site do. They 
>> apply cleanly, but > they completely omit the contents of the 
>> fs/reiser4 directory which has > the bulk of the code. It seem that 
>> the problem resides with the reiser > folks. Maybe they have some 
>> more complicated structure involving two > trees. Not sure, but a 
>> correct patch looks like it has to come from the > reiser4 team.
>>
>> This is because Larry only made a diff against
>> bk://bk.namesys.com/bk/reiser4-linux-2.5 which is a repository
>> containing changes needed by the reiser4 in the core kernel code.
>>
>> Bulk of reiser4 code (content of fs/reiser4) is in
>> bk://bk.namesys.com/bk/reiser4 repository.
>>
>> > > -Tupshin
>> >
>> Nikita.
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> make more effort to make this well documented for users.  If they are 
> asking these questions, it means that you failed to document.
>
It would still be wonderful to have a way of getting such patches 
without going through bk. I requested that a working (complete) patch be 
made against a recent kernel version(2.6.0-test2 or later at this point) 
a few weeks ago, and while a got positive response, I still haven't seen 
anything. I would think you would want to make this very easy for people 
who are already going through the effort of testing 2.6 kernels.

-Tupshin