From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752236AbcAFRcK (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:32:10 -0500 Received: from mail.linux-iscsi.org ([67.23.28.174]:45023 "EHLO linux-iscsi.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751653AbcAFRcI (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:32:08 -0500 Message-ID: <1452101504.26125.9.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> Subject: Re: a configfs update for 4.5, and the configfs tree question From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: jlbec@evilplan.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com, k.opasiak@samsung.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 09:31:44 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1450968671-13699-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> References: <1450968671-13699-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 15:51 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > I really want the configfs change in this series to go into 4.5. Originally > both Pantelis and I had changes ontop that would require it in a stable > non-rebased branch, but one or both of those might not make the cut. > > As this has been a problem with a increased configfs actitivly lately I'd > like to volunteer to co-maintain configfs and keep a git tree that can > be used as stable baseline for all involved parties instead of the > patch-only -mm tree or occasional merge through the SCSI target tree. > > I've started out with just this patch in my tree: > > git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/vfs.git configfs-for-4.5 > > or gitweb: > > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/vfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/configfs-for-4.5 > > I know Krzysztof also had pending changes and I'd be happy to collect them > as well. Wrt to Krzysztof's set of aforementioned configfs patches, they have been in target-pending/for-next for the last few weeks now.. Since the larger set of Andrzej's usb-gadget target changes depend upon these configfs changes, it makes sense to keep them together in the target tree. Beyond that, I'm glad to see a dedicated configfs tree. Thanks HCH.