Re: [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed

From: Nitin Gupta
Date: Mon Sep 21 2009 - 23:19:41 EST


On 09/21/2009 05:31 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins
> <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> (Nitin, your patch division is quite wrong: you should present a patch
>> in which your driver works, albeit poorly, without the notifier; then
>> a patch in which the notifier is added at the swapfile.c end and your
>> driver end, so we can see how they fit together.)
>
> Yes, please. Such standalone driver could go into drivers/staging for
> 2.6.32 probably.
>


Ok, for now all I will remove all swap notifier bits from the patches so
they reside completely in drivers/staging/. That should make it easier for
GregKH to merge it. The problematic swap notifier part will be added later.

Thanks to you and Hugh for looking into these patches.

Nitin
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