Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

And that of course means that many many 2.6.28 patches which I am
maintaining will need significant rework to apply on top of linux-next,
and then they won't apply to mainline.  Or that linux-next will not apply
on top of those patches.  Mainly memory management.

Significant rework to many many patches?  The FS-Cache patches don't have all
that much impact outside of their own directories, AFS and NFS.

Please drop the NFS tree until after -rc1.

Guys, this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/27/173

Okay, that's a reasonable request.

David