Re: [PATCH 0/3] staging: ramster: move to new zcache2 code base

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Sep 04 2012 - 17:40:54 EST


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 08:00:20PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 03:46:01PM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > Hi Greg --
> >
> > gregkh> If you feel that the existing code needs to be dropped
> > gregkh> and replaced with a totally new version, that's fine with
> > gregkh> me. It's forward progress, which is all that I ask for.
> > (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1208.0/02240.html,
> > in reference to zcache, assuming applies to ramster as well)
> >
> > Please apply for staging-next for the 3.7 window to move ramster forward.
> > Since AFAICT there have been no patches or contributions from others to
> > drivers/staging/ramster since it was merged, this totally new version
> > of ramster should not run afoul and the patches should apply to
> > 3.5 or 3.6-rcN.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
> > When ramster was merged into staging at 3.4, it used a "temporarily" forked
> > version of zcache. Code was proposed to merge zcache and ramster into
> > a new common redesigned codebase which both resolves various serious design
> > flaws and eliminates all code duplication between zcache and ramster, with
> > the result to replace "zcache". Sadly, that proposal was blocked, so the
> > zcache (and tmem) code in drivers/staging/zcache and the zcache (and tmem)
> > code in drivers/staging/ramster continue to be different.
>
> Right. They will diverge for now.

Konrad, can I get your Acked-by: for this series? I need that before I
can apply it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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