From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759789AbZEHJN2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 05:13:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754080AbZEHJNM (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 05:13:12 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:53835 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752422AbZEHJNL (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 05:13:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4A03F7A8.9090204@kernel.org> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 18:13:12 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Williams CC: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, Mauelshagen@redhat.com, dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] block,scsi,libata: implement alt_size References: <1233456951-992-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <49F902CF.7080307@garzik.org> <49F903DD.8040707@kernel.org> <49FA0349.3090706@garzik.org> <49FEA127.1000905@kernel.org> <49FFB275.7000507@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 08 May 2009 09:12:01 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Pushing this in the kernel without updating dm-raid is kind of >> pointless. Who should I be poking to get the userland part moving? > > Dmraid is not the only potential user. Mdadm will also care about > this as I have seen a report that points to a user having what looks > like an HPA issue with an Intel(R) Matrix array. So, there are two > immediate users for this interface. Heinz is the right person to poke > for dmraid updates. I'll handle the mdadm update. Alright, then. With Jeff's reluctant ack and scheduled mdadm update, I guess this one can go upstream. I'll refresh the patchset and repost. Umm... BTW do I have Heinz's mail address right? Thanks. -- tejun