Re: fallocate-implementation-on-i86-x86_64-and-powerpc.patch (was:re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:52:51 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:31:52AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >  Merge
> > 
> > fallocate-implementation-on-i86-x86_64-and-powerpc.patch
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> Could you replace the comment/header section of
> fallocate-implementation-on-i86-x86_64-and-powerpc.patch with the
> following (attached below) ?  This is from the ext4 patches, where
> Amit had cleaned up description, which will make for a cleaner and
> easier to understand submission into the git tree.

There were issues with the x86 patch, the s390 patch was wrong and Tony
wants the the ia64 patch to use a different syscall number.

So I dropped everything.  Let's start again from scratch.  I'd suggest that
for now we go with just an i386/x86_64 implementation, let the arch
maintainers wire things up when that has settled down.
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