Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:50:04 -0400 Mingming Caoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the ext4 patch queue is in good shape now. Which ext4 patches are you intending to merge into 2.6.23? Please send all those out to lkml for review? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:29:21AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >In any case, the plan is to push all of the core bits into Linus tree > >for 2.6.22 once it opens up, which should be Real Soon Now, it looks > >like. > > Presumably you mean 2.6.23. Yes, sorry. I meant once Linus releases 2.6.22, a

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-29 Thread Mingming Caoc
Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:33:42AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Please let us know what you think of Mingming's suggestion of posting all the fallocate patches including the ext4 ones as incremental ones against the -mm. I think Mingming was asking that Ted move the

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
Theodore Tso wrote: I don't think we have a problem here. What we have now is fine, and It's fine for ext4, but not the wider world. This is a common problem created by parallel development when code dependencies exist. In any case, the plan is to push all of the core bits into Linus tre

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:33:42AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Please let us know what you think of Mingming's suggestion of posting > > all the fallocate patches including the ext4 ones as incremental ones > > against the -mm. > > I think Mingming was asking that Ted move the current quilt tr

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:33:42AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I think Mingming was asking that Ted move the current quilt tree into git, > presumably because she's working off git. > > I'm not sure what to do, really. The core kernel patches need to be in > Ted's tree for testing but that'll c

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-28 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jun 28, 2007 23:27 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:55:43AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Are we all supposed to re-review the entire patchset (or at least #4 and > > #7) again? > > As I mentioned in the note above, only patches #4 and #7 were new and > thus these nee

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: b) We do what we normally don't do and reserve the syscall slots in mainline. If everyone agrees it's going to happen... why not? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 11:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:27:57 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please drop the non-ext4 patches from the ext4 tree and send incremental > > > patches against the (non-ext4) fallocate patches in -mm. > > > > Please le

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:27:57 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please drop the non-ext4 patches from the ext4 tree and send incremental > > patches against the (non-ext4) fallocate patches in -mm. > > Please let us know what you think of Mingming's suggestion of posting > all t

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-28 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:55:43AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:58:10 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > N O T E: > > --- > > 1) Only Patches 4/7 and 7/7 are NEW. Rest of them are _already_ part > >of ext4 patch queue git tree hosted by Ted. >

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-28 Thread Mingming Cao
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 02:55 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Please drop the non-ext4 patches from the ext4 tree and send incremental > patches against the (non-ext4) fallocate patches in -mm. > The ext4 fallocate() patches are dependent on the core fallocate() patches, so ext4 patch-queue and git t

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:58:10 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > N O T E: > --- > 1) Only Patches 4/7 and 7/7 are NEW. Rest of them are _already_ part >of ext4 patch queue git tree hosted by Ted. Why the heck are replacements for these things being sent out again when they

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-26 Thread David Chinner
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 06:58:10PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > 2) The above new patches (4/7 and 7/7) are based on the dicussion >between Andreas Dilger and David Chinner on the mode argument, >when later posted a man page on fallocate. Can you include the man page in this patch set, ple

[PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-25 Thread Amit K. Arora
N O T E: --- 1) Only Patches 4/7 and 7/7 are NEW. Rest of them are _already_ part of ext4 patch queue git tree hosted by Ted. 2) The above new patches (4/7 and 7/7) are based on the dicussion between Andreas Dilger and David Chinner on the mode argument, when later posted a man page o