linux-kernel - Re: [patch v3 1/1] md: Software Raid autodetect dev list not array

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Message-ID: <46D4748A.4070909@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:16:26 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Michael Evans <mjevans1983@...il.com>
CC:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>,
	"Michael J. Evans" <mjevans1983@...cast.net>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v3 1/1] md: Software Raid autodetect dev list not array

Michael Evans wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
>> Michael Evans wrote:
>>> On 8/28/07, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
>>>> Michael Evans wrote:
>>>>> On 8/28/07, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> wrote:
>>>>>> Michael Evans wrote:
>>>>>>> Oh, I see.  I forgot about the changelogs.  I'd send out version 5
>>>>>>> now, but I'm not sure what kernel version to make the patch against.
>>>>>>> 2.6.23-rc4 is on kernel.org and I don't see any git snapshots.
>>>>>>> Additionally I never could tell what git tree was the 'mainline' as it
>>>>>>> isn't labeled with such a keyword (at least in the list of git trees I
>>>>>>> saw).
>>>>>> I suspect you wait for 2.5.23 release, or send it to AKPM for inclusion
>>>>>> in an "-mm" kernel. That's probably desirable, anyway.
> 
> Gentoo's mm-sources is version 2.6.23-rc3-mm1, which I'd guess is
> close enough for an area like this.  Given that I didn't need to make
> any changes to the patch should I just submit it to the mm for testing
> without rebooting in to an mm-sources kernel?  I need to schedule when
> I do that so it would take me overnight to do so.

Yes, I think that you can go ahead with that, but it's up to the
subsystem maintainers where/when it goes from there.

-- 
~Randy
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