On Thursday, February 02, 2012 23:48:23 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:26:53 +0100 > Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The first version of this patch was posted July 1st, 2011. I really hope that > > it won't take another six months to get a review from a fs developer. As this > > LWN article (http://lwn.net/Articles/450658/) said: 'There has been little > > discussion of the patch; it doesn't seem like there is any real reason for it > > not to go in for 3.1.' > > > > The earliest this can go in now is 3.4. The only reason it takes so long is > > that it has been almost impossible to get a Ack or comments or even just a > > simple reply from the fs developers. That is really frustrating, I'm sorry > > to say. > > Yup. Nobody really maintains the poll/select code. It happens to sit > under fs/ so nominally belongs to the "fs maintainers". The logs for > fs/select.c seem to show me as the usual committer, but I wouldn't > claim particular expertise in this area - I'm more a tube-unclogger > here. Probably Al knows the code as well or better than anyone else. > It's good that he looked at an earlier version of the patches. > > fs/eventpoll.c has an identified maintainer, but he has been vigorously > hiding from us for a year or so. I'm the commit monkey for eventpoll, > in a similar state to fs/select.c. > > So ho hum, all we can do is our best. You're an experienced kernel > developer who has put a lot of work into the code. I suggest that you > get your preferred version into linux-next ASAP then send Linus a pull > request for 3.4-rc1, explaining the situation. If the code wasn't > already in linux-next I would put it in -mm today, for 3.4-rc1. Thank you very much for your reply. This was very helpful! Regards, Hans > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- 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
