Re: [PATCH 05/10] Core checkpoint/restart support code

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Quoting Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 13:51:20 -0500 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> > > On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:27:53 -0500 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Andrew (Cc:d), did you see this thread go by, and it did it look
> > > > in any way more palatable to you?  Have you had any thoughts on
> > > > checkpoint/restart in the last few months?  Or did that horse quietly
> > > > die over winter?
> > > 
> > > argh, it was the victim of LIFO.
> > > 
> > > All I can say at this stage is that I'll be interested next time it
> > > comes past, sorry.
> > 
> > Thanks, that's good to know.
> > 
> > As you know, we started with a minimal patchset, then grew it over time
> > to answer the "but how will you (xyz) without uglifying the kernel".
> > Would you recommend we go back to keeping a separate minimal patchset,
> > or that we develop on the current, pretty feature-full version?  I'm not
> > convinced believe there will be bandwidth to keep two trees and do both
> > justice.
> 
> The minimal patchset is too minimal for Oren's use and the maximal
> patchset seems to have run aground on general kernel sentiment.  So I
> guess you either take the minimal patchset and make it less minimal or
> take the maximal patchset and make it less maximal, ending up with the
> same thing.  How's that for hand-waving useless obviousnesses :)

Perfect, thanks :)

> One obvious approach is to merge the minimal patchset then, over time,
> sneak more stuff into it so we end up with the maximal patchset which
> people didn't like.  Don't do that :)

Hoping that "which people didn't like" is purely conjecture.

Ok, I'll advocate for proceeding with the full patch-set as long as we
can.  Thanks, Andrew.

-serge
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