From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265086AbTFYVVs (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:21:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265090AbTFYVVs (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:21:48 -0400 Received: from dm2-55.slc.aros.net ([66.219.220.55]:58560 "EHLO cyprus") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265086AbTFYVVm (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:21:42 -0400 Message-ID: <3EFA15B6.9000504@aros.net> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:35:50 -0600 From: Lou Langholtz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Anyone for NBD maintainer [was Re: [RFC][PATCH] nbd driver for 2.5+: fix locking issues with ioctl UI] References: <3EF94672.3030201@aros.net> <20030625001950.16bbb688.akpm@digeo.com> <3EF9C192.7000206@aros.net> <20030625175849.GB4988@elf.ucw.cz> <3EF9E83C.6030504@aros.net> <20030625183045.GD4988@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20030625183045.GD4988@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek wrote: >> . . .I'd be honoured too but not sure what exactly that entails. What other >>stuff would I have to do besides actively developing it? I won't be able >>to do anything on the Internet till Monday either. >> >> > >Well, maintainer gets patches from people and should decide which are >good and which are not... > >Anyway if you give me your sf.net name, I can probably add you as a >developer to the nbd.sf.net... but: I'd like you to keep userland code >backward compatible. Ie. new userland code should still work with >2.4.x kernel. > Pavel > > Okay. Haven't heard anyone say lose the compatibility in favor of the cleanup so I'll work on the back compatibility more in the driver. Same with userland tools. I'd better get a sf.net name then apparantly. Thanks ;-)