From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964812AbWIPQE1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:04:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964814AbWIPQE1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:04:27 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:46866 "EHLO 1wt.eu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964812AbWIPQE1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:04:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:51:41 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Tejun Heo , Tom Mortensen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.x libata resync Message-ID: <20060916155141.GA18409@1wt.eu> References: <20060916053713.GJ541@1wt.eu> <450B9940.5030609@gmail.com> <20060916063808.GK541@1wt.eu> <450C1CF2.4080308@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <450C1CF2.4080308@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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