From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Subject: Re: [Fwd: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review] Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:05:51 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <2260532704.1079550351@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> References: <405899E8.8070806@pobox.com> <20040317183756.GA23667@lst.de> <2241002704.1079549645@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <20040317190117.GA23968@lst.de> Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040317190117.GA23968@lst.de> Content-Disposition: inline To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:54:05AM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:33:12PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> A patch to fs/partitions/check.c is also required for this >> >> release to function correctly: >> >> Hmm. I don't think Jeff wrote that. > > That's why it's doubly-quoted, right? Hmm. I didn't realize that Jeff was ever part of this thread. I authored the text that you quoted and was just surprised to see Jeff's name near it. Never mind. >> So do you speak for the entire community in expressing that auto-detection >> will never make sense in the kernel? Are you completely unwilling to >> entertain even a minor discussion on the topic for those of us that don't >> understand the concerns the community has in supporting it? > > I speak about the concencus the 'community' has reached in the past. > If you invested the tiniest amount of googling you'd have seen messages > from Neil where he sais he'd rather get rid of autodetection ioctls > in favour of mdadm doing the work, and patches extending autodetection > beeing rejected. Which pretty much fits into the general do it in > userspace if you can rule. I'm aware of Neil's past comments on the subject, but I was not aware of a more full discussion on what this means in terms of lost functionality for Linux. I would like to have that discussion. I'm more than willing to adjust our strategy once that discussion takes place and a consensus is reached. -- Justin