On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:22:44 +1000, "ibm-main" wrote: > From: "Shailabh Nagar" > > > > Here's a set of patches that implements rcfs using configfs. It reduces > the > > rcfs codebase by over 1200 lines (62%). Equally important, the new code is > much easier to maintain. > > Is this seen as a (the ???) future direction of the project ???. > I don't subscribe to lkml, but a quick check of the archives doesn't inspire > confidence that AM intends that this (configfs) be merged into the kernel > core any time soon.
Actually, it will likely go in with ocfs which is under a pretty focused review right now. We don't have a good guess at a time frame, but definitely the f series would not be declared stable before that happened. At the same time, it may be feasible to consider the f series as a patch set against the -mm tree (e.g. apply 2.6.13 + mm + ckrm f-series) as we are running through development, just to keep things a *little* simpler. At the same time, we'll probably lag the bleeding edge of akpm's tree a bit since it isn't always rock-solid stable. > Whilst it looks interesting, and might reduce the code-line count for this > project, is it reasonable to expect potential users must incorporate > a(nother) large patch-set to test the ckrm code ???. The reason for a development series is to explore some of these more extensive/radical changes. We may decide that this is a bad idea overall, although the allure of less code to maintain is definitely fascinating, especially when we consider preparing this code for submission to mainline. The more commonality we can find with other projects, the better. > Given that this breaks the ce's, should patch sets like this even be > released against the ckrm-stable tree ???. I expect in time that the CE's will be re-released against this set of core changes as well - especially the code that moves most of the CE to user level. So, you are peeking in on some very early development here and your experiences are very useful to share. For instance, I don't think we'll be making the cutover to declaring the f series as stable and complete for a while - it might be a month or two to shake things like this out. > I'm more than happy to test updates like this against the development tree > (f0 currently), but I have my doubts that this is a valid update against > "stable" (FSVO stable). This is going to confuse the hell out of any new > people coming across the project - I had the devils' own job trying to work > out what patches I should be applying, and what to avoid when I joined the > list. Yeah - for that we apologize - I think as you joined, there were a lot of ideas for simplification brewing and they've been pulled out sor of suddenly. So, we are feeling our way through what the f series will be, while at the same time trying to keep the e series stable for those who want to understand the basic functionality of CKRM. > Shane ... I hope this helps! gerrit ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
