Re: Crunch time -- Final merge candidates for 3.0 (the list).

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 21 October 2002 01:43, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2002  20:37 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Ted Tso has also been posting new ext2/ext3 code with extended attributes
> > and access control lists.
> >
> > Announcement:
> > http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6787.html
> > Code (chooe your poison):
> > bk://extfs.bkbits.net/extfs-2.5-update
> > http://thunk.org/tytso/linux/extfs-2.5
> >
> > Apparently generic ACL support went into 2.5.3 (the status list again),
> > but I guess it wasn't added to EXT2.  I suppose this makes this a good
> > candidate for inclusion then. :)
> >
> > So, 11 items from the 2.5 status list (in -aa, in -mm, and "ready"), plus
> > kexec, kernelconfig, and ACL for EXT3.  I believe this brings the total
> > number of pending patchsets still hoping for 2.5 inclusion to 14.
>
> I belive that the ext3 EA+ACL stuff is now in -mm.
>
> Cheers, Andreas

Query: is the stuff in -mm guaranteed to make it into Linus's tree?  Or is it 
another variant of -ac and -dj, from which Linus pulls what he wants?

The first seems HIGHLY unlikely.  But is nice to know anyway... :)

Rob