From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from lostlogicx.com (host145.south.iit.edu [216.47.130.145]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD34ABCFB for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:07:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from lostlogic@localhost) by lostlogicx.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) id g9PI7X431278; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:07:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:07:33 -0500 From: Brandon Low To: Seth Mos Cc: John Newman , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-sources-r9 kernel sources vs. XFS patch Message-ID: <20021025130733.C13079@lostlogicx.com> References: <20021024091250.GA15653@sparc.cachehit.net> <20021024091250.GA15653@sparc.cachehit.net> <20021024111316.C485@lostlogicx.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20021025090232.03ea60c8@pop.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20021025090232.03ea60c8@pop.xs4all.nl>; from knuffie@xs4all.nl on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:08:19AM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux found 2.4.20-pre10-mjc1 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: f9be5548-f949-44b6-aea6-2797ce4bff4c X-Archives-Hash: 9460dd344981f380d9f9dd5af50f2d00 > XFS is already merged in since 2.5.36. The integration with the 2.4 tree is > a ongoing project. It might be integrated into 2.4 in the future when > marcelo thinks the time is right. > It isn't a matter of Marcelo feeling that the time is right, it is a matter of someone taking the time (as was done for 2.5) to simplify the patch and get rid of the extraneous s**t that it messes with outside of what a filesystem should. I think I posted elsewhere about this, but merging JFS into 2.4 involved about a 2000 line patch to kernel core code, XFS's patch is closer to 40000 lines. Normally, adding a filesystem to a kernel tree is not a big deal, but as you might guess getting a massive 40,000 line hunk of code past Marcelo is NOT going to happen. The XFS people (or some other kind soul, as I mentioned) need to 1) start feeding good bits of the XFS patch to Marcelo and 2) start synching it up with his tree so that JUST the filesystem can be merged w/o all the random other stuff they touch. Blah, that is badly written, but whatever, I just woke up. --Brandon