On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 02:38:27PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 08:00:20PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 03:46:01PM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > > > Hi Greg -- > > > > > > gregkh> If you feel that the existing code needs to be dropped > > > gregkh> and replaced with a totally new version, that's fine with > > > gregkh> me. It's forward progress, which is all that I ask for. > > > (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1208.0/02240.html, > > > in reference to zcache, assuming applies to ramster as well) > > > > > > Please apply for staging-next for the 3.7 window to move ramster forward. > > > Since AFAICT there have been no patches or contributions from others to > > > drivers/staging/ramster since it was merged, this totally new version > > > of ramster should not run afoul and the patches should apply to > > > 3.5 or 3.6-rcN. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Dan > > > > > > When ramster was merged into staging at 3.4, it used a "temporarily" forked > > > version of zcache. Code was proposed to merge zcache and ramster into > > > a new common redesigned codebase which both resolves various serious design > > > flaws and eliminates all code duplication between zcache and ramster, with > > > the result to replace "zcache". Sadly, that proposal was blocked, so the > > > zcache (and tmem) code in drivers/staging/zcache and the zcache (and tmem) > > > code in drivers/staging/ramster continue to be different. > > > > Right. They will diverge for now. > > Konrad, can I get your Acked-by: for this series? I need that before I > can apply it. Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> > > thanks, > > greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
