On Thu, Nov 07 2013, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Btw, I have to state that I very much disagree with dropping the > direct I/O kernel changes, and I also very much disagree with keeping > the immutable iovecs in. > > For the latter I think the immutable iovecs are useful and do want to > see them eventually, but they were merged at the latest possible point > in the merge window and cause breakage all over the tree, so they very > clearly are not ready at this point, and I fear even more breakage if > they do get merged. I agree, I've had this very conversation with Kent as well. The merge of it has gone a lot worse than I had feared, and the resulting series at this point is a non-bisectable mess. The fallback plan was to pull it from the 3.13 tree and shove it into a 3.14 tree with more for-next simmering. It is in progress, just takes a while... -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
