On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 02:11:47AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 02:05:07PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > Just FYI, the first thing that needs to be done after the userspace > > release is to resync the libxfs/libxlog code with the kernel code. > > That needs to be done before any of the CRC changes can be merged, > > so be prepared for a pretty major update that'll need review soon > > after the release. > > > > IIRC, the last kernel/user resync I did was about 15,000 lines of > > change I don't expect this to be quite as big (the previous one > > contained the btree consolidation changes), but I'd expect it to be > > in the order of 2-3000 lines of change to be needed. > > Do we have anyone who has signed up for that work yet? I think it will be end up being me because I'm the one who needs it done in the next month or so... > One thing I'd really love to do is to make the resyncs simpler, e.g. > make sure userspace can use the same #include statements as the kernel > code, and make sure all files are either used entirely in userspace or > not at all. Things like the split of xfs_extent_busy.c are going to > help with that, but I suspect there's more work to do. There's a lot more work to get to that point, I think. I don't plan on tackling that right now, though. Stuff like the way you split up the dir2 headers is also a step in the right direction... > > > Thanks for reposting your 3.8 queue, BTW. Sometimes I think that frequent > > > reposts are inconvenient, but in this case I think it will be helpful. > > > > When I'm having trouble tracking of several of my own patch sets for > > the same release, it's time for re-organisation and a repost. > > Besides, it's a habit Christoph and I got into a while back when we > > had lots of work going on and we needed to make sure nothing > > slipped through the cracks..... :) > > For anything more than one or two simple patches a complete repost is > they way to spell a ping. Once you're having dozends of patches it's > almost guaranteed there are a few small fixes or context changes by the > time of the ping, and the repost takes care of having an uptodate > version. > > And in case anyone wonder, yes I plan to get back to reviewing your bits > soon. Cool. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
