Re: [PATCH 00/19] pramfs
From: Marco Stornelli
Date: Mon Sep 09 2013 - 14:21:00 EST
Il 09/09/2013 01:40, Dave Chinner ha scritto:
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:14:04AM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote:
Hi all,
this is an attempt to include pramfs in mainline. At the moment pramfs
has been included in LTSI kernel. Since last review the code is more
or less the same but, with a really big thanks to Vladimir Davydov and
Parallels, the development of fsck has been started and we have now
the possibility to correct fs errors due to corruption. It's a "young"
tool but we are working on it. You can clone the code from our repos:
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/pramfs/code pramfs-code
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/pramfs/Tools pramfs-Tools
The 1980s are calling, and they want their filesytem back. :)
So, Devil's Advocate time. Convince me as to why pramfs should be
merged.
Never used in my embedded project with more of few mb, and maybe you are
asking for cases not targeted. Pramfs is in LTSI not why I asked Greg to
include it, but because there are several companies asked me to do. The
message wasn't "hey, pramfs is in LTSI, so we must include it in
mainline" but it was only a consideration and indication that there is
need of something like that out there. Sure we can talk about if it's
the best option or not, however this is the real world. In addition,
this comment is exactly why the kernel community is not really friendly
to be time-to-market, we have to say it. It's not possible to have a 10
years review. It's a never ending story. Maybe when there is a big
company behind a patch the behavior is different and I can do several
examples, but I don't want to say more, life is hard, I know, even in
the kernel community. I think I can close the review here, my delusion
is not for me, I can live well in each case, but for the companies and
all the people believes in the project.
Thanks to all.
Marco
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