From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Mortensen <tmmlkml@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.x libata resync
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:38:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060916063808.GK541@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <450B9940.5030609@gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:27:12PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Tom Mortensen wrote:
> >>To Jeff Garzik & others,
> >>I was wondering if there are any plans for another resync of the latest
> >>2.6.x libata changes back into the 2.4.x kernel?
> >
> >When Jeff posted his last version (which got merged), he said that it
> >would be his last work on this backport. I've been regularly checking
> >what has changed in 2.6, because often some bugs are fixed, but I see
> >that the code has considerably evolved since the last resync, and I'm
> >not even sure that those bugfixes are needed for 2.4.
> >
> >A full resync of latest 2.6 would require a considerable effort it seems.
> >Do you encounter any problems right now ? I get very few feedback from
> >SATA users in general.
>
> I don't think it's gonna happen. Later libata changes depend on a
> number of SCSI updates, which in turn are deeply dependent upon new
> driver model used in 2.6. So, apart from bug fixes, there won't be 2.4
> resync.
There are a bunch of small patches in the early 2.6 version which look
like bugfixes, but with non-descriptive comments, so I'm not sure what
they fix. Several of them would apply to 2.4, but I don't want to touch
this area as long as nobody complains about problems.
Regards,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-16 6:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-16 5:14 2.4.x libata resync Tom Mortensen
2006-09-16 5:37 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-16 6:27 ` Tejun Heo
2006-09-16 6:38 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2006-09-16 15:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-16 15:51 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-16 16:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-16 16:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-16 16:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-16 16:22 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-16 6:47 ` Tom Mortensen
2006-09-16 6:18 ` Jeff Garzik
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2006-09-20 14:52 Mikael Pettersson
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