Re: 2.4.x libata resync

[Tejun Heo]

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
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