On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 09:08 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:39:19AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:21:19AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > Bringing the patch to a public mailing list is a waste of time until > > > there's a reliable description of the problem you're trying to solve. > > > > Please see the original patch. It does describes what it is doing. > > "What", but not "Why". Which is only acceptable in GNU changelogs ;-) Please understand the "Why" is a sticky subject that we can't and won't discuss in a public forum. However, we believe the maintainers understand the "Why" of it well enough to consider whether or not to include such a patch. The "What" should be pretty clear from the patch description. The "How" is a technical question that can be discussed here. Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center -- 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