Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:08:38 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] Permit NFS superblock sharing [try #2] |
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > > nfs-apply-mount-root-dentry-override-to-filesystems: > > 3 out of 10 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/nfs/inode.c.rej > > Would it help you if I split the NFS bits out of patch 2 into a separate patch?
I wouldn't worry about splitting patches to make their application easier - the main thing is to ensure that they're logical units from the design/implementation POV. And that the kernel should compile (and hopefully run) at each stage of the series.
And don't worry about the -mm-only patches - I'll sort them out. Unless people are working against functionality which is only in -mm, they should work against mainline.
But in the case where you're hitting hard on a particular subsystem, the best tree to work against is that subsystem's tree. Which is a bit of a pain if you want to put your feature out to external testers, because then you need to also make a snapshot of the subsystem tree available as well. That's just a cost of doing business, really. It ends up being extremely simple if one is using quilt.
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