Re: [PATCH 00/40] staging/lustre: patch bomb 1

From: Peng Tao
Date: Fri Nov 15 2013 - 04:51:57 EST


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some of the stuff here looks a lot like "new features / functionality"
> to me, insead of just cleanups and fixes.
>
> Ideally, you all would only work on cleanups and getting this code out
> of staging, and not add new things while it's sitting here. But I know
> that's going to be hard as you all are still working with an external
> tree.
>
> That external tree is going to be tough to keep up over time, I
> _strongly_ suggest you drop it as soon as possible and only use the
> upstream tree. Otherwise this whole thing really isn't going to work
> out at all.
>
There are many users of the external tree so we cannot just abandon
it, especially that the upstream client is not shipped in any
distribution yet. Thanks for your understanding.


> I'll go dig through these and see what they look like, thanks...
>
Thanks,
Tao
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