From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964802AbWIPPtM (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:49:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932445AbWIPPtM (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:49:12 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:36521 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932443AbWIPPtK (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:49:10 -0400 Message-ID: <450C1CF2.4080308@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:49:06 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: Tejun Heo , Tom Mortensen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.x libata resync References: <20060916053713.GJ541@1wt.eu> <450B9940.5030609@gmail.com> <20060916063808.GK541@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: <20060916063808.GK541@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Jeff