From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754027AbZIOP4o (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:56:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754854AbZIOP4h (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:56:37 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:59771 "EHLO mail-fx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754059AbZIOP4h (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:56:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4AAFB8F3.4000209@vflare.org> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:25:31 +0530 From: Nitin Gupta Reply-To: ngupta@vflare.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-mm-cc@laptop.org, Ingo Molnar , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?d=E9ric_Weisbecker?= , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] virtual block device driver (ramzswap) References: <200909100215.36350.ngupta@vflare.org> <200909100249.26284.ngupta@vflare.org> <84144f020909141310y164b2d1ak44dd6945d35e6ec@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020909150030h1f9d8062sc39057b55a7ba6c0@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020909150130r573df1e1jfe359b88387f94ad@mail.gmail.com> <20090915152641.GA22667@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20090915152641.GA22667@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/15/2009 08:56 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:30:16AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: >> Btw, Nitin, why are you targeting drivers/block and not >> drivers/staging at this point? It seems obvious enough that there are >> still some issues that need to be ironed out (like the CONFIG_ARM >> thing) so submitting the driver for inclusion in drivers/staging and >> fixing it up there incrementally would likely save you from a lot of >> trouble. Greg, does ramzswap sound like something that you'd be >> willing to take? > > If it is self-contained, actually builds, and there is an active > developer who is working getting it merged into the main kernel tree, > then yes, I will be willing to take it into the drivers/staging/ tree. > Just send me the patches. > It is self contained (except for swap notify callback part). I will send revised patches addressing some of coding issues raised in reviews and moving everything over to drivers/staging. Thanks, Nitin From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 821E66B005A for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:56:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so1168881fga.8 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:56:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AAFB8F3.4000209@vflare.org> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:25:31 +0530 From: Nitin Gupta Reply-To: ngupta@vflare.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] virtual block device driver (ramzswap) References: <200909100215.36350.ngupta@vflare.org> <200909100249.26284.ngupta@vflare.org> <84144f020909141310y164b2d1ak44dd6945d35e6ec@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020909150030h1f9d8062sc39057b55a7ba6c0@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020909150130r573df1e1jfe359b88387f94ad@mail.gmail.com> <20090915152641.GA22667@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20090915152641.GA22667@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Greg KH Cc: Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-mm-cc@laptop.org, Ingo Molnar , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?d=E9ric_Weisbecker?= , Steven Rostedt List-ID: On 09/15/2009 08:56 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:30:16AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: >> Btw, Nitin, why are you targeting drivers/block and not >> drivers/staging at this point? It seems obvious enough that there are >> still some issues that need to be ironed out (like the CONFIG_ARM >> thing) so submitting the driver for inclusion in drivers/staging and >> fixing it up there incrementally would likely save you from a lot of >> trouble. Greg, does ramzswap sound like something that you'd be >> willing to take? > > If it is self-contained, actually builds, and there is an active > developer who is working getting it merged into the main kernel tree, > then yes, I will be willing to take it into the drivers/staging/ tree. > Just send me the patches. > It is self contained (except for swap notify callback part). I will send revised patches addressing some of coding issues raised in reviews and moving everything over to drivers/staging. Thanks, Nitin -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org