From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCHSET #upstream] block/libata: update and use block layer padding and draining Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:22:16 +0900 Message-ID: <47ACF238.3030605@gmail.com> References: <12021979851743-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <47AA4C53.5050503@garzik.org> <47ACC1E2.5040905@garzik.org> <20080208210422.GG23197@kernel.dk> <47ACCE33.9090809@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47ACCE33.9090809@garzik.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, Andrew Morton List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> Jeff Garzik wrote: >>>> Tejun Heo wrote: >>>>> This patchset updates block layer padding and draining support and >>>>> make libata use it. It's based on James Bottomley's initial work and, >>>>> of the five, the last two patches are from James with some >>>>> modifications. >>>>> >>>>> Please read the following thread for more info. >>>>> >>>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/37185 >>>>> >>>>> This patchset is on top of >>>>> >>>>> upstream (a6af42fc9a12165136d82206ad52f18c5955ce87) >>>>> + kill-n_iter-and-fix-fsl patch [1] >>>> ACK patchset... lets definitely get these fixes upstream. >>>> >>>> Once Jens is happy, I would prefer the merge the lot upstream, if >>>> that is OK with everyone involved? >>> Jens, ping? >>> >>> It's a bug fix, so it would be nice to get this in soonish. As >>> noted, if all looks good, I would prefer to merge via libata-dev... >> >> I'm ok with it, but lets please merge the block bits through the block >> repo, since they are not trivial. Wont be until the week after next, >> though. > > hmmm, rather than delaying the bug fixes for two weeks, since you're OK > with it we can push upstream now, and apply further fixes if problems > arise during testing? > > I would rather get these fixes out into wide testing sooner rather than > later. I have an updated version. Please standby a bit. Thanks. -- tejun