[PATCH] ramzswap: Remove backing swap support

[Greg KH]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:20:47PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> On 05/16/2010 09:51 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:13:46PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> >> Hi Minchan,
> >>
> >> On 05/16/2010 09:50 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> >>  
> >>> One thing was about naming.
> >>> Now block device operations has field naming swap_xxx_notify
> >>> (I am not sure exact name). My concern was it's very specific about swap.
> >>> So I thought we would be better to more abstract name.
> >>>
> >>> I thought trim like naming as Linus said.
> >>
> >> This call is very swap specific and is quite different from generic trim
> >> stuff. So, I think it will be better not be generalize the name and avoid
> >> confusing it with trim/discard etc.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, I will review again at next week if it isn't merged
> >>> linux-next(or linux-mm ?? which is right?). That's because I have a
> >>> interest in your good ramzswap. :)
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks, comments/reviews are always welcome :)
> >>
> >> Greg: In the meantime, considering 3 Acks, is it possible to pull it in
> >> linux-next?
> > 
> > It's already there, right?
> > 
> 
> Yuk! its there.
> 
> I actually wanted to refer to the 'swap notify patch'. Please see patch titled:
> 'ramzswap: Eliminate stale data from compressed memory (v2)'
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/982232)
> 
> This patch got 3 Acks: Pekka, Linus and Nigel.

Yes, I can't take that one, as it is outside of the drivers/staging/
tree.  Unless no one else objects?  Which, I guess no one does, hm,
sorry about that.  Care to resend them to me so I can queue them up?

thanks,

greg k-h