From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751054AbVKKTGA (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:06:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751056AbVKKTGA (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:06:00 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:44676 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751054AbVKKTF7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:05:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:05:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: reiser@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: truncate_inode_pages_range patch to mainline ? Message-Id: <20051111110535.1a491b87.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1131735059.25354.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1131735059.25354.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > I would like to find out, what your plans and/or concerns > to push > > reiser4-truncate_inode_pages_range.patch > > from your -mm tree to mainline ? Well that's part of the reiser4 patch series. It can be fed forward if we need it, of course. > I need this for my madvise(REMOVE) work. That's OK. > And also, I see that > madvise(REMOVE) is not in -mm2 also. Do you still > have concerns with it ? I haven't looked much at the latest version yet, sorry. The two-weeks-after-release window isn't a good time to be looking at new features, so there's quite a lot of material saved up for the six-week-interregnum. But yes, your patch still sucks ;)