Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCHES] | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 23 May 1999 09:54:53 -0500 |
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>>>>> "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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