Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:27:12 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.x libata resync |
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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.
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