From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com, minchan@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
devel@linuxdriverproject.org, ngupta@vflare.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] staging: ramster: move to new zcache2 code base
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:38:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120904213827.GA12394@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120831000020.GA14628@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 08:00:20PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 03:46:01PM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > Hi Greg --
> >
> > gregkh> If you feel that the existing code needs to be dropped
> > gregkh> and replaced with a totally new version, that's fine with
> > gregkh> me. It's forward progress, which is all that I ask for.
> > (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1208.0/02240.html,
> > in reference to zcache, assuming applies to ramster as well)
> >
> > Please apply for staging-next for the 3.7 window to move ramster forward.
> > Since AFAICT there have been no patches or contributions from others to
> > drivers/staging/ramster since it was merged, this totally new version
> > of ramster should not run afoul and the patches should apply to
> > 3.5 or 3.6-rcN.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
> > When ramster was merged into staging at 3.4, it used a "temporarily" forked
> > version of zcache. Code was proposed to merge zcache and ramster into
> > a new common redesigned codebase which both resolves various serious design
> > flaws and eliminates all code duplication between zcache and ramster, with
> > the result to replace "zcache". Sadly, that proposal was blocked, so the
> > zcache (and tmem) code in drivers/staging/zcache and the zcache (and tmem)
> > code in drivers/staging/ramster continue to be different.
>
> Right. They will diverge for now.
Konrad, can I get your Acked-by: for this series? I need that before I
can apply it.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-04 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-30 22:46 [PATCH 0/3] staging: ramster: move to new zcache2 code base Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-30 22:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] staging: ramster: remove old driver to prep for new base Dan Magenheimer
2012-09-05 19:03 ` Greg KH
2012-08-30 22:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] staging: ramster: move to new zcache2 codebase Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-30 22:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] staging: ramster: place ramster codebase on top of " Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-31 0:00 ` [PATCH 0/3] staging: ramster: move to new zcache2 code base Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-04 21:38 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-09-05 11:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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