Re: [PATCH 0/3 ver2] iscsi bidi & varlen support

[Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>]

On Mon, Feb 18 2008 at 19:22 +0200, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 17:08 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> But ... James? is
>> there any chance these can go into scsi-rc-fixes for the 2.6.25
>> kernel? The reason they are so late was mainly because of a fallout
>> in the merge process and a bug that was introduced because of that,
>> but they were intended to go together with bidi into 2.6.25. Also
>> as an important client code to the bidi-api that is introduced in
>> 2.6.25 kernel.
> 
> Well, I think you know the answer to that one under Linus' rules for non
> merge window submission.  It's not a bug fix; we haven't even put it
> into -mm for testing and it's a pretty invasive change.
> 
> James
> 
> 

It was extensively tested by all iscsi people. It has the Sign-off-by
of the iscsi maintainer. They are not new patches.

But, yes you are right. I now remember the trouble we had with Linus
last time. So it's 2.6.26 then. :-( . People that need it for 2.6.25
will just get it off the git tree.

Boaz