[Pvfs2-developers] some testing questions

[Murali Vilayannur]

Sam,
Getting code into the mainline kernel is an uphill task and is really
not worth the pain. A lot of our code may get restructured (especially
some of the vfs/dcache related hooks)
Once we drop all support for 2.4 kernels, I think maintaining configure checks
and the #ifdef checks in the kernel module don't seem that daunting
(hopefully ;))
thanks,
Murali

> Since the client has to be shipped separately, and the versions
> between kernel module and client have to match, I think it ends up
> being easier to just ship them together.  That being said, I've been
> smacked by the #ifdef checks in the kernel module in order to support
> all the different kernel versions still out there.  It can make the
> code hard to follow.  Someone with more history can answer this
> better though I'm sure.
>
> -sam
>
> >
> > - David Brown
> >
>
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