From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932535AbVHINLd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:11:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932536AbVHINLd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:11:33 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:403 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932535AbVHINLd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:11:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.31 O_DIRECT support for ext3 From: Arjan van de Ven To: manoj.sharma@wipro.com Cc: sct@redhat.com, akpm@zip.com.au, adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <7352E281DE2FDC4E8F29EC48AAE1668C0910CF@blr-m3-msg.wipro.com> References: <7352E281DE2FDC4E8F29EC48AAE1668C0910CF@blr-m3-msg.wipro.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:11:17 +0200 Message-Id: <1123593078.3839.25.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 2.9 (++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 2.8 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 18:35 +0530, manoj.sharma@wipro.com wrote: > Hi, > > This is back-port of O_DIRECT support for ext3 from 2.6 to 2.4.31 > kernel. > > Any suggestions/comments ? why? personally I think this is way out of scope for a 2.4.x release in this phase of 2.4's life. (also you wrapped your patch)