On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 10:48 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > Ted, > I have rebased the ext4 patchset on 2.6.21-rc4 and cleaned up some bad > whitespace and sparse warnings. The patches are here: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/shaggy/ext4/ext4-2007-03-19.tar.bz2 > Untarred here: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/shaggy/ext4/ext4-2007-03-19/ > > I have commented the series file with the changes I've made. Some of > the patches are missing signed-of-by: > > # Rebased the patches to 2.6.21-rc4 > > # New patch to fix whitespace before applying new patches > whitespace.patch > > # Replaced truncated beginning comments > extent-overlap-bugfix >
> persistent_allocation_1_ioctl_and_unitialized_extents > We could mention here that this patch is going to be replaced by a new patch to use the fallocate() operations. > # Fixed an endian error > persistent_allocation_2_support_for_writing_to_unitialized_extent > I think Amit has an updated version of this patch in his place. > # Note: still lots of outstanding comments from linux-ext4 list, 12/2006 > # Missing signed-off-by: > booked-page-flag.patch > > # Missing signed-off-by: > ext4-block-reservation.patch > > # fixed a bunch of endianness errors reported by sparse > # Needs a signed-off-by from Alex, then can add shaggy's > ext4-delayed-allocation.patch > > ext4-delalloc-extents-48bit.patch > > # updated to latest version > nanosecond_timestamps.patch > This nanosecond patch could be move to upstream earlier than the delayed allocation patch (Alex is working to rewrite it at VFS level), so shall we move it before the booked-page-flag.patch? I wonder if we should create two branches: one branch for patches that are well discussed and tested, which Andrew could trust and pull to mm tree; and create another branch to store patches that are still under discussion and likely to be rewriten based on the review feedback. Thanks, Mingming - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
