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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:30:51 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@kernel.org>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, dsd@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [stable]  libata spindown patches for 2.6.21-stable
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:01:14PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Should we put these patches in 2.6.21-stable?
> 
> Gentoo developers did a full backport:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=118047865916766&w=2

I think it looks way too big.

If there are smaller patches, it might be a bit more reasonable.

Are there reported bugs that this patchset fixes?

thanks,

greg k-h