Re: [stable] libata spindown patches for 2.6.21-stable

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:48:46PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
>  Greg KH wrote:
> > I think it looks way too big.
> 
>  Agreed (otherwise I would have submitted the patches already).
> 
> > If there are smaller patches, it might be a bit more reasonable.
> 
>  It may be possible to get rid of the couple of unrelated ones (sd printing, 
>  SCSI constants). These were required for the real patches to be able to 
>  build, but it would probably be easy to modify the real patches to build 
>  against kernels without those otherwise unrelated patches.
> 
> > Are there reported bugs that this patchset fixes?
> 
>  Yes, but they are not regressions - libata has never done this right until 
>  now.
> 
>  Here are a few:
>  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174373
>  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7674
>  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7838
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/67810

Ok, if people want to post some smaller patches to the stable team,
we'll be glad to consider them.

thanks,

greg k-h