Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:38:08 +0200 | | From | Willy Tarreau <> | | Subject | Re: 2.4.x libata resync |
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On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:27:12PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Willy Tarreau wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Tom Mortensen wrote: > >>To Jeff Garzik & others, > >>I was wondering if there are any plans for another resync of the latest > >>2.6.x libata changes back into the 2.4.x kernel? > > > >When Jeff posted his last version (which got merged), he said that it > >would be his last work on this backport. I've been regularly checking > >what has changed in 2.6, because often some bugs are fixed, but I see > >that the code has considerably evolved since the last resync, and I'm > >not even sure that those bugfixes are needed for 2.4. > > > >A full resync of latest 2.6 would require a considerable effort it seems. > >Do you encounter any problems right now ? I get very few feedback from > >SATA users in general. > > I don't think it's gonna happen. Later libata changes depend on a > number of SCSI updates, which in turn are deeply dependent upon new > driver model used in 2.6. So, apart from bug fixes, there won't be 2.4 > resync.
There are a bunch of small patches in the early 2.6 version which look like bugfixes, but with non-descriptive comments, so I'm not sure what they fix. Several of them would apply to 2.4, but I don't want to touch this area as long as nobody complains about problems.
Regards, Willy
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