From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCHSET #upstream] block/libata: update and use block layer padding and draining Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:48:35 -0500 Message-ID: <47ACCE33.9090809@garzik.org> References: <12021979851743-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <47AA4C53.5050503@garzik.org> <47ACC1E2.5040905@garzik.org> <20080208210422.GG23197@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080208210422.GG23197@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe 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 Jens Axboe wrote: > 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. hmmm, rather than delaying the bug fixes for two weeks, since you're OK with it we can push upstream now, and apply further fixes if problems arise during testing? I would rather get these fixes out into wide testing sooner rather than later. Jeff