From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCHSET #upstream] block/libata: update and use block layer padding and draining Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 22:04:22 +0100 Message-ID: <20080208210422.GG23197@kernel.dk> References: <12021979851743-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <47AA4C53.5050503@garzik.org> <47ACC1E2.5040905@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47ACC1E2.5040905@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, Andrew Morton List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >Tejun Heo wrote: > >>This patchset updates block layer padding and draining support and > >>make libata use it. It's based on James Bottomley's initial work and, > >>of the five, the last two patches are from James with some > >>modifications. > >> > >>Please read the following thread for more info. > >> > >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/37185 > >> > >>This patchset is on top of > >> > >> upstream (a6af42fc9a12165136d82206ad52f18c5955ce87) > >>+ kill-n_iter-and-fix-fsl patch [1] > > > >ACK patchset... lets definitely get these fixes upstream. > > > >Once Jens is happy, I would prefer the merge the lot upstream, if that > >is OK with everyone involved? > > Jens, ping? > > It's a bug fix, so it would be nice to get this in soonish. As noted, > if all looks good, I would prefer to merge via libata-dev... I'm ok with it, but lets please merge the block bits through the block repo, since they are not trivial. Wont be until the week after next, though. -- Jens Axboe