Re: [PATCH 1/4] Support generic I/O requests

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On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought zram is related to memory management a little bit.
>>>
>>> What's the criteria?
>>
>> Yes, and this is something which bothers me a bit about the -staging
>> process.  Code gets in there largely under the radar of the people who
>> work in that area.  It gets "matured" for a while and the developer
>> thinks it's all ready to go into "mainline" and ....  then what? Someone
>> needs to yank the code out of -staging and tell the interested
>> parties "hey, look at this".  And at this stage, they might say "hell
>> no", or request large changes and the developer who thought everything
>> was all ready to go would be justifiably upset.
>
> Yeah, that's what I assumed would happen here. When the code in -staging is
> "good enough", Nitin would submit squashed patches for inclusion review and
> when everyone is happy, we'd merge the code including full history from
> -staging.
>
> Btw, ramzswap and zram have been discussed openly on LKML. I guess Nitin
> should have CC'd linux-mm as well for you to see it Andrew?

Sorry for the duplicate mail. I thought I lost this to /dev/null.
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