From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH md 005 of 10] Split off some md attributes in sysfs to a separate group.
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:48:10 -0800
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:15:16PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> Some, but not all, md array support data redundancy and hence
> support checking and restoring that redundancy (resync, rebuild).
> 
> Some attributes apply specifically to functions involving this
> redundancy, and so should only appear for md arrays for which they
> are meaningful.  i.e. they should not appear for raid0, linear, multpath,
> faulty.
> 
> This patch separates these into a distinct group and creates
> the group only if the personality supports sync_request.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>