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Message-ID: <450B9940.5030609@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:27:12 +0900 From: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com> To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> CC: Tom Mortensen <tmmlkml@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org Subject: Re: 2.4.x libata resync Hello, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Tom Mortensen wrote: >> To Jeff Garzik & others, >> I was wondering if there are any plans for another resync of the latest >> 2.6.x libata changes back into the 2.4.x kernel? > > When Jeff posted his last version (which got merged), he said that it > would be his last work on this backport. I've been regularly checking > what has changed in 2.6, because often some bugs are fixed, but I see > that the code has considerably evolved since the last resync, and I'm > not even sure that those bugfixes are needed for 2.4. > > A full resync of latest 2.6 would require a considerable effort it seems. > Do you encounter any problems right now ? I get very few feedback from > SATA users in general. I don't think it's gonna happen. Later libata changes depend on a number of SCSI updates, which in turn are deeply dependent upon new driver model used in 2.6. So, apart from bug fixes, there won't be 2.4 resync. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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