Re: 2.6.21-rc6 new aops patchset

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On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:47:11AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I've tried to go through and convert most of the easier ones, and there
> are only a handful of remainders, many of which seem pretty straightforward
> and I'll probably end up doing most of them.
>  
> Reiserfs I think is the biggest one left out, and I hope the maintainers
> will help with that.
> 
> 
> What about supporting out-of-tree code? Should we provide the backwards
> compatibility for a few releases? The good thing about it is that it will
> run noticably slower (but deadlock free!), so if anyone cares, they will
> have incentive to update :)

No, definitly not.  We don't keep a lot of junk for out of tree users
around.  Especially as the whole generic_file* mechanisms is pretty deeply
interwinded with filesystems and VM code and shouldn't really be used
out of tree.
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