Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 0/5] LZO and swap write failure patches for -mm | From | Richard Purdie <> | Date | Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:56:42 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 22:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'd say go with the cleanups. The code I've seen is going to be quite > unmaintainable by any kernel developer. > > Any fixes which come from upstream can be trivially applied by taking the > diffs against the version of upstream we started with and manually applying > them to our version. If the diffs are too large and complex for that then > a) we shouldn't be merging the code in its current state anyway and b) with > the code as-is we couldn't effectively review or changelog those diffs, so > we shouldn't apply them. > > So just fork it and freeze it.
Ok, thanks for the decision.
Since I don't have too much faith in what Nitin has done with it, I'll produce a version myself. In theory we should end up with identical code so will be a sanity check of Nitin's code if nothing else.
Cheers,
Richard
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