Re: [PATCH 005 of 11] md: Merge raid5 and raid6 code

H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-01T05:40:38Z

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" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
>

Wonderful! Thank you for doing this :)

-hpa