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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:40:05 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 005 of 11] md: Merge raid5 and raid6 code
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NeilBrown wrote:
> There is a lot of commonality between raid5.c and raid6main.c.  This
> patches merges both into one module called raid456.  This saves a lot
> of code, and paves the way for online raid5->raid6 migrations.
> 
> There is still duplication, e.g. between handle_stripe5 and
> handle_stripe6.  This will probably be cleaned up later.
> 
> Cc:  "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
> 

Wonderful!  Thank you for doing this :)

	-hpa