On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:18:52AM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote: > Thank you for the suggestion. > > > Who are you execting to pull this huge patch series? > > The last pull request was addressed to Al as per Arnd's suggestion. > I'm not completely sure who should it be addressed to. > > > Why not just introduce the new api call, wait for that to be merged, and > > then push the individual patches through the different subsystems? > > After half of those get ignored, then provide a single set of patches > > that can go through Andrew or my trees. > > Arnd and I tried to do this a few ways. > > We can try to introduce the api first like you suggest. > > There are a few Acks already on the patches. > And, patches 2-5 also need to be merged through some common tree like > yours or Andrew's as you suggest. > > So, if everyone is ok, I could do the following: > > 1. Post patches 1-5 for rc-2. -rc2 is already released, and we aren't adding new apis this late in the release cycle, sorry. > 2. Post all other patches to respective maintainers after rc-2 > 3. Then after patches get ignored or merged, post remaining as a > series for you or Andrew to pick up. The apis need to be aimed for 4.9-rc1, it's too late for 4.8, sorry. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
