From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752341AbXFNSLE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:11:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752161AbXFNSKn (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:10:43 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:55926 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751508AbXFNSKm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:10:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:12:10 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Daniel Drake Cc: Chuck Ebbert , linux-stable , Dave Jones , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [stable] libata spindown patches for 2.6.21-stable Message-ID: <20070614181210.GA11421@kroah.com> References: <4671664A.8010404@redhat.com> <20070614173051.GA9039@kroah.com> <46717F7E.2040507@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46717F7E.2040507@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:48:46PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > I think it looks way too big. > > Agreed (otherwise I would have submitted the patches already). > > > If there are smaller patches, it might be a bit more reasonable. > > It may be possible to get rid of the couple of unrelated ones (sd printing, > SCSI constants). These were required for the real patches to be able to > build, but it would probably be easy to modify the real patches to build > against kernels without those otherwise unrelated patches. > > > Are there reported bugs that this patchset fixes? > > Yes, but they are not regressions - libata has never done this right until > now. > > Here are a few: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174373 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7674 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7838 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/67810 Ok, if people want to post some smaller patches to the stable team, we'll be glad to consider them. thanks, greg k-h