On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:58:05AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. OK. Assuming Andrew picks it up when 2.6.21 comes out, that should give enough time to have all conversions done to remove the compat code and merge by 2.6.23. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
