Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm2

[Sébastien Dugué]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:49:19 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:39:48 +0100 Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >   Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 00:44:08 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Temporarily at
> > > 
> > >   http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc2-mm2/
> > > 
> > > Will appear later at
> > > 
> > >   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc2/2.6.20-rc2-mm2/
> > > 
> > > 
> > > - git-block.patch is having problems which are getting in the way - it has
> > >   been dropped.
> > > 
> > > - As a consequence all the AIO patches were dropped
> > > 
> > 
> >   Why? The aio notification and listio patches have nothing to do with
> > git-block.patch.
> 
> Yes, I could have retained those with a little bit of jiggling.  But...
> 
> >   If you think those patches will be rendered obsolete by the new
> > syslet/fibril/whatever approach, then fine.
> 
> Until this is sorted out I don't think we can add new core AIO code. 
> Particularly not new syscalls.

  Makes sense.

> 
> > Otherwise do you expect me to
> > resubmit?
> 
> Is OK for now, I think.

  Ok, thanks for the good job.

  Sébastien.
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