Re: [RFC] persistent store (version 3) (part 1 of 2)

From: Marco Stornelli
Date: Tue Dec 14 2010 - 03:35:12 EST


2010/12/13 Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>could you cc linux fs devel and maybe linux embedded mailing list?
>>Currently I try to insert in mainline the pramfs. Maybe we have the
>>same goal and we could "merge" our effort. What do you think? Sure the
>>kernel from this point of view has got a lack of support, I see
>>different approach and solution to this. I saw in the staging tree a
>>pmem driver of google guys that it seems to be designed for the same
>>goal.
>
> Marco,
>
> My Cc: list is already getting rather long ... I worry about
> adding more mailing lists to it.  Embedded is a bit worrying
> for me as I've been a bit cavalier about memory allocation in
> the current version (on the theory that I was targeting servers,
> and a few Kbytes, or even tens of Kbytes wasn't worth worrying
> about on a server - which these days is likely to have a minimum
> of 4 GBytes).
>
> I grepped around for "pmem" in drivers/staging in linux-next and
> got a lot of hits - but none of them leapt out as something
> similar.  Can you point a bit more specifically?

I saw (very quickly) in drivers/staging/dream/pmem.c

Marco
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