From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 21:54:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] I/O MCA recovery Message-Id: <16546.40225.607307.380778@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <200405040954.09524.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200405040954.09524.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 12 May 2004 14:44:22 -0700, Jesse Barnes said: Jesse> On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 2:35 pm, David Mosberger wrote: >> It definitely falls in the experimental category. That isn't bad but >> I don't think it's mainline material. Certainly not for 2.6. Jesse> What would you like to see before it hits the mainline? The Jesse> read_check support implemented? For better or worse, that Jesse> requires a lot of buy in on lkml. Just looking for other Jesse> suggestions... I just don't see a lot of demand for this kind of feature at this point, so why bloat the kernel? Plus the solution so far seems rather incomplete and fragile. I suggest to play with this in a separate tree and if users start to really like the patch and can't live without it, well, I'm sure I'll hear about it. --david