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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Tom Mortensen <tmmlkml@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.x libata resync
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:51:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060916155141.GA18409@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <450C1CF2.4080308@garzik.org>

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 11:49:06AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Oh there are tons of SATA bug fixes that 2.4.x is missing.  One of the 
> biggest is the completely crappy exception handling.  If a SATA device 
> is unplugged or spazzes out, the system may or may not recover.

Already encountered on sata_nv in a sun x2100 :-)

Jeff, I did not want to blindly merge patches from 2.6 to 2.4, but if
you point me to a few ones you consider important, I'm willing to merge
them.

Regards,
Willy


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-16 16:04 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
2006-09-16 15:49       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-16 15:51         ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-20 14:52 Mikael Pettersson

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