From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from neon.transmeta.com (neon-best.transmeta.com [206.184.214.10]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA05473 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 02:03:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 23:03:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCHES] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, MOLNAR Ingo List-ID: On 22 May 1999, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I've been busy working to improve the basic mechanisms of the > page cache, and finally what appears to be a stable set of patches, with > no hacks against 2.3.3 I have three worries: - this is large, with no input from anybody else that I have seen. - I absolutely detest getting encoded patches. It makes it much harder for me to just quickly look them over for an immediate feel for what they look like. - Ingo just did the page cache / buffer cache dirty stuff, this is going to clash quite badly with his changes I suspect. So would you mind just sending the patches in plaintext, one by one, to avoid at least one of my worries (and as a reference to other people: this is basicall yhow I always prefer patches). The other worries I'll see about later. The short descriptions sound fine, although I still want to look at the vm_store part closer.. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/