Swap prefetch is not the only project that had to wait more than 1.5 years for integration. Reiser4 comes to mind. Hot swappable memory. Tracing. Xen took many years. Ext4 was talked about for years too. The kernel debugger has been around for about 10 years. More than 1.5 years seems rather common for complex kernels features.
With his prior announcement of completely withdrawing from Linux kernel development he might have created a bit of a confusion about the maintenance status of this code. Perhaps he should have made it more clear to the maintainers of the virtual memory code that he would keep maintaining it if his code was merged into the 2.6.23 kernel? Or should he have have passed maintenance of swap prefetch to someone else (were anyone interested) before he left the project for personal and health reasons?
Swap prefetch is not the
Swap prefetch is not the only project that had to wait more than 1.5 years for integration. Reiser4 comes to mind. Hot swappable memory. Tracing. Xen took many years. Ext4 was talked about for years too. The kernel debugger has been around for about 10 years. More than 1.5 years seems rather common for complex kernels features.
With his prior announcement of completely withdrawing from Linux kernel development he might have created a bit of a confusion about the maintenance status of this code. Perhaps he should have made it more clear to the maintainers of the virtual memory code that he would keep maintaining it if his code was merged into the 2.6.23 kernel? Or should he have have passed maintenance of swap prefetch to someone else (were anyone interested) before he left the project for personal and health reasons?