Re: [PATCHES]

[ebiederm+eric@ccr.net (Eric W. Biederman)]

>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

LT> On 22 May 1999, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> I've been busy working to improve the basic mechanisms of the
>> page cache, and finally what appears to be a stable set of patches, with
>> no hacks against 2.3.3

LT> I have three worries:
LT>  - this is large, with no input from anybody else that I have seen.

Not much.  I had aggreements in principal but no one else has looked at it
real hard.

LT>  - I absolutely detest getting encoded patches. It makes it much harder
LT>    for me to just quickly look them over for an immediate feel for what
LT>    they look like.
O.k.  I do that for large patches because I'm paranoid about the mailers
in between. . .

LT>  - Ingo just did the page cache / buffer cache dirty stuff, this is going
LT>    to clash quite badly with his changes I suspect.

Interesting.  I have been telling folks I've been working on this for quite
a while.    I wish I'd heard about him or vis versa.

Ingo can I get a pointer to your work?


Linus, I'll be resending the patches later today (church is in about 5 minutes).

LT> The other worries I'll see about later. The short descriptions sound fine,

Cool.  If you agree with my work in principal, that makes life easier.
Now I just need to worry about the details of my patches.

Eric

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