[RFC/PATCH] drivers/staging/zcache: remove (old) zcache

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Jan 4 20:51:40 UTC 2013


On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 11:53:37AM -0800, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> Since Seth Jennings has moved on to zswap [1], I believe further
> effort on the older version of zcache has been abandoned.
> Unless there are objections, I can submit a patch to
> Greg to remove drivers/staging/zcache and, at some point,
> follow up with a patch to re-invert drivers/staging/ramster
> so that the newer version of zcache (aka zcache2) becomes
> drivers/staging/zcache, with ramster as a subdirectory.
> 
> If I've missed anyone on the cc list who possibly cares about
> the old version of zcache, kindly forward.
> 
> Greg, assuming no objections, do you want an official patch,
> i.e. removing each individual line of each file in
> drivers/staging/zcache?  Or will you just do a git rm?
> If the latter and you need a SOB, I am the original author so:
> Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer at oracle.com> 

I'll just delete it and add your signed-off-by to the patch that does
it.  Unless someone speaks up in the next week or so, consider it
removed.

thanks,

greg k-h



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