Subject: Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches

From: David Howells <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:04:35 +0000

Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:

> And that of course means that many many 2.6.28 patches which I am
> maintaining will need significant rework to apply on top of linux-next,
> and then they won't apply to mainline.  Or that linux-next will not apply
> on top of those patches.  Mainly memory management.

Significant rework to many many patches?  The FS-Cache patches don't have all
that much impact outside of their own directories, AFS and NFS.

> Please drop the NFS tree until after -rc1.
> 
> Guys, this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/27/173

Okay, that's a reasonable request.

David