From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762671AbXGJUqS (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:46:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756788AbXGJUqH (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:46:07 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:47602 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758542AbXGJUqG (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:46:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:58:34 +0530 From: "Amit K. Arora" To: Mark Fasheh Cc: Theodore Tso , Andrew Morton , Heiko Carstens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Martin Schwidefsky Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate Message-ID: <20070710202834.GH8797@amitarora.in.ibm.com> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070710090737.GA16519@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070710022213.81e7b432.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070710154503.GC27033@thunk.org> <20070710182047.GJ15463@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070710182047.GJ15463@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:20:47AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:45:03AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:22:13AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:07:37 +0200 Heiko Carstens wrote: > > > > We reserved a different syscall number than the one that is used right now > > > > in the patch. Please drop this patch... Martin or I will wire up the syscall > > > > as soon as the x86 variant is merged. Everything else just causes trouble and > > > > confusion. > > > > > > OK, I dropped all the fallocate patches. > > > > Andrew, I want to clarify who is going to push the fallocate patches. > > I can either push them to Linus as part of the ext4 patch set, or we > > can wait for you to push them. I thought since you had them in -mm > > and we were going to wait you to push them (and presume that this was > > going to happen soon). > > > > Alternatively I can push them directly to Linus along with other ext4 > > patches. We can drop the s390 patch if Martin or Heiko wants to wire > > it up themselves. > > > > As far as I know there hasn't been any real contention on the actual > > syscall patches, other than the numbering issues, so it seems that > > pushing them to Linus sooner rather than later is the right thing to > > do. > > Where is the latest and greatest version of those patches? Is it still the > patch set distributed in 2.6.22-rc6-mm1? I'd mostly like to see the final > set of flags we're planning on supporting. But yeah, I second the "sooner > rather than later" :) I have posted the latest fallocate patches as part of TAKE6. These patches are exactly same as how they currently look in the ext4 patch queue being maintained by Ted. -- Regards, Amit Arora