From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 005 of 11] md: Merge raid5 and raid6 code Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:40:05 -0700 Message-ID: <44559F35.2050800@zytor.com> References: <20060501152229.18367.patches@notabene> <1060501053025.22961@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1060501053025.22961@suse.de> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids NeilBrown wrote: > There is a lot of commonality between raid5.c and raid6main.c. This > patches merges both into one module called raid456. This saves a lot > of code, and paves the way for online raid5->raid6 migrations. > > There is still duplication, e.g. between handle_stripe5 and > handle_stripe6. This will probably be cleaned up later. > > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" > Signed-off-by: Neil Brown > Wonderful! Thank you for doing this :) -hpa