Re: [RFC] Tux3 for review
From: Daniel Phillips
Date: Tue Jun 24 2014 - 07:27:18 EST
On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 3:59:40 AM PDT, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 02:10:52AM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
That makes sense, because the patches to transform our workarounds
into shiny new kernel hooks are still in progress, as I said. I would
appreciate the courtesy of being permitted to take the time to do the
work to the necessary quality without being subjected to endless
carping about when the patches will be posted.
The feedback which you have been getting, fairly consistently I
believe, is that it is the shiny new kernel hooks that need to be
reviewed, not the workarounds. I don't think it's a matter of people
not being willing to give you the time to do this work (take all the
time you need!); but rather that it's premature for you to be asking
for tux3 to be merged before those patches have been posted and
reviewed and found to be shiny.
That is not quite right. Before posted the filesystem for review,
we did not know whether core changes or workarounds would be the
better route. Now we do know, and have duly turned our coding
energy to producing a set of decent core hooks. That does not mean
that we are taking Tux3 "out of play". That would just be stupid.
I emphatically disagree that it is premature for asking Tux3 to be
merged. You might think so, but I do not. While I do not begrudge
you your opinion, Linux did not get to the dominant position it has
today by being shy about merging new functionality early. Did we
suddenly lose our mojo just at Tux3 merge time?
If you really think that Tux3 has been offered for merge too early,
then clone our tree, build it, break it and heap abuse on us. That
should take you about one hour if you are right.
Regards,
Daniel
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