From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 4] md: Introduction Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:09:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20060824150900.36bd9285.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060824173647.19026.patches@notabene> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060824173647.19026.patches@notabene> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:40:56 +1000 NeilBrown wrote: > > Following are 4 patches against 2.6.18-rc4-mm2 > > The first 2 are bug fixes which should go in 2.6.18, and apply > equally well to that tree as to -mm. > > The latter two should stay in -mm until after 2.6.18. > > The second patch is maybe bigger than it absolutely needs to be as a bugfix. > If you like I can stripe out all the rcu-extra-carefulness as a separate > patch and just leave the important bit which involves moving the > atomic_add down twenty-something lines. > > Thanks, > NeilBrown > > [PATCH 001 of 4] md: Fix recent breakage of md/raid1 array checking > [PATCH 002 of 4] md: Fix issues with referencing rdev in md/raid1. > [PATCH 003 of 4] md: new sysfs interface for setting bits in the write-intent-bitmap > [PATCH 004 of 4] md: Remove unnecessary variable x in stripe_to_pdidx(). The second patch is against -mm and doesn't come within a mile of applying to mainline.