From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: SCSI git trees Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:57:05 +0000 Message-ID: <1249325826.3943.207.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <1248887256.3900.78.camel@mulgrave.site> <19063.9181.620137.814464@stoffel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:50345 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752931AbZHCS5J (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:57:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <19063.9181.620137.814464@stoffel.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: John Stoffel Cc: linux-scsi , Jens Axboe On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:52 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > >>>>> "James" == James Bottomley writes: > > James> It seems I got unsubscribed from linux-scsi last week while I was on > James> holiday and I've likely missed a slew of patches, it seems like an > James> appropriate time to remind everyone how the SCSI trees work. > > James> --- > > James> There are two git based scsi trees: > > James> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git > > James> called the scsi-misc tree for patches being collected for the > James> next merge window. And > > I don't see my patch to block/Kconfig to make BLK_DEV_BSG be enabled > by default. Is this going to be pushed for 2.6.32-rc1 when the merge > window opens up? > > I've attached the patch, just to make sure. Let me know if I should > send it in properly. > > Thanks! > John > > > Make Block Layer SG support v4 the default, since recent udev versions > depend on this to access serial numbers and other low level info > properly. > > This should be backported to older kernels as well, since most distros > have > enabled this for a long time. > > Signed-off-by: John Stoffel > --- > block/Kconfig | 11 +++++++---- > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig > index e7d1278..55bbefc 100644 > --- a/block/Kconfig > +++ b/block/Kconfig Actually, this one isn't really SCSI; it's block (Jens cc'd). It's Jens call on the backport, but my feeling is that removing a feature from experimental is really an enhancement not a bug fix, so it's not really eligible under the backport rules. James