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SubjectRe: [stable] libata spindown patches for 2.6.21-stable
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:48:46PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 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

Ok, if people want to post some smaller patches to the stable team,
we'll be glad to consider them.

thanks,

greg k-h
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