From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756991Ab3BOJbV (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:31:21 -0500 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:48970 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752550Ab3BOJbT (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:31:19 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:29:55 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: OS Engineering Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , "Darrick J. Wong" , Sanoj Unnikrishnan , =?utf-8?B?546L6YeR5rWm?= , Amit Kale Subject: Re: [PATCH] EnhanceIO ssd caching software Message-ID: <20130215092955.GY21269@kernel.dk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 15 2013, OS Engineering wrote: > Hi Greg, Jens, > > We are submitting EnhanceIO(TM) software driver for an inclusion in > linux staging tree. Present state of this driver is beta. We have been > posting it for a few weeks, while it was maintained at github. It is > still being cleaned-up and is being tested by LKML members. Inclusion > in linux staging tree will make testing and reviewing easier and help > a future integration in Linux kernel. >>From a quick look, this looks clean enough to not warrant a stop in staging. Why don't we just queue it up for 3.10, that will give it 3-4 months before it hits a release kernel. So plenty of time to iron out any kinks in this. It's a driver and completely isolated at that, so I'd have no problem doing that. -- Jens Axboe