From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755494AbXFNRt4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:49:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751036AbXFNRts (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:49:48 -0400 Received: from smtp131.iad.emailsrvr.com ([207.97.245.131]:54304 "EHLO smtp131.iad.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894AbXFNRtr (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:49:47 -0400 Message-ID: <46717F7E.2040507@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:48:46 -0400 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Chuck Ebbert , linux-stable , Dave Jones , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [stable] libata spindown patches for 2.6.21-stable References: <4671664A.8010404@redhat.com> <20070614173051.GA9039@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20070614173051.GA9039@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Daniel