Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:06:18 +0530 | From | Nitin Gupta <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] Support generic I/O requests |
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On 06/02/2010 11:50 AM, Minchan Kim wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> wrote:
> P.S) > Why don't you send this series to -mm?
In general, zram is somewhat related to memory management but these zram patches mainly deal with handling generic I/O requests. So, I just posted them on linux-kernel. Even if changes were made to xvmalloc, I doubt if anyone at -mm would be interested in a driver specific allocator.
> I don't know any patches have to go linux-next and any patches have to > go --mmotm. > I thought zram is related to memory management a little bit. > > What's the criteria? >
I *guess* anything experimental goes to linux-next and if thats related directly to core mm, it goes to --mmotm also.
Thanks, Nitin
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