From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964773AbWIPGuO (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:50:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964774AbWIPGuO (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:50:14 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:45074 "EHLO 1wt.eu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964773AbWIPGuN (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:50:13 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:38:08 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Tejun Heo Cc: Tom Mortensen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org Subject: Re: 2.4.x libata resync Message-ID: <20060916063808.GK541@1wt.eu> References: <20060916053713.GJ541@1wt.eu> <450B9940.5030609@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <450B9940.5030609@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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