From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Piergiorgio Sartor Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] raid6check fixes Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:10:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20130624171016.GA2237@lazy.lzy> References: <20130618090910.1161109.69430.stgit@fsdevel7.hpc.devnet.itwm.fhg.de> <20130619100803.03fde6d5@notabene.brown> <20130620161639.GA3033@lazy.lzy> <20130624170458.568dafcb@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130624170458.568dafcb@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: Piergiorgio Sartor , Bernd Schubert , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 05:04:58PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: [...] > > Hi Neil, > > > > BTW, what's your plan of including "raid6check" > > into a main release of "mdadm" package? > > > > Do you have "deadline" in mind? > > What exactly do you mean by that? > raid6check.c is already in the upstream git tree and was in mdadm-3.2.5. Hi Neil, I was under the impression you were holding back the patches from Robert (Buchholz). Probably I was wrong. > Do you mean when will it be included by distros? That is really up to them. > I could get "make install" to install it I guess. > I haven't really thought about what would be required for that. > > I'll add it to my list of things to think about. Well, that could be some thinking for 3.3, couldn't it? :-) In any case, yes, it would be nice to force a bit the hand of the distros by installing "raid6check" too. Thanks, bye, pg > NeilBrown > > > > > Thanks, > > > > bye, > > > -- piergiorgio