Rodrigo Souza de Castro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:27:49PM +0800, David Chow wrote:
> > For the documentation on the linux compressed cache website. It is
> > imcomplete, I would like to finish up the documentation of the files and
> > functions. But I will need help from you guys to verify and see if it is
> > corret or not. I think this helps me to understand the overall coding
> > and help others to contribute. Thanks.
>
> Besides being incomplete, it's completely outdated. It was done based
> on 2.4.0 or 2.4.1, and lots of changes have been made since then. One
> of the many changes is the VM fork between Linus and Alan branches
> that happened around 2.4.9 IIRC.
>
> I think that first of all we need to update this documentation. If you
> feel like updating those old documentation, it would be even nicer
> that writing new documents. Linus told today on lkml that 2.4.15 is
> likely to be the start point to 2.5.x, so now we can update the
> documentation on the site to have a long-term documentation for 2.4.x.
>
> I'd be pleased to check your documentation. Unfortunately I am really
> busy until the end of this semester (some assignments and finals at
> the university) so I won't be able to help you writing documentation
> while I can't get rid of those stuff (maybe beginning of
> December). The bright side is that when this semester is over, I will
> be finally working full-time on the project. :-)
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Rodrigo S. de Castro <rc...@im...>
Besides about documentation, since the project is in a very seed stage, I
suggest we concentrate on we are doing instead of spending our time keep in
trace with the main stream kernel changes. I suggest pick a typical stable
release and stick to that release, after our work is done, then do the
porting work to the newest ones. Since the routines that comprssed cache
uses (as I notice) are the swap cache routines, unless Linus make a big
change on the vm, our design is less likely to be affected. It is very hard
to keep tack of everything, since they are making changes quite often, you
will have to sacrisfy something. I don't think I can do the documentation
of the VM without help, but I will do my best for it.
regards,
David
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