From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: andersen@codepoet.org
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9/8 Backport recent 2.6 IDE updates to 2.4.x
Date: 17 Aug 2003 20:20:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1061148010.23520.0.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030817191701.GA23859@codepoet.org>
On Sul, 2003-08-17 at 20:17, Erik Andersen wrote:
> IDE layer was reverted to a "late 2.4.19-pre-acX version" and has
> been gone ever since... Any particular reason the baby was
> tossed out with the proverbial bathwater?
In theory the device mapper can do the work ide-raid is doing and do it
better. That was the plan anyway
> Anyway, this patch fixes up the 2.4.x ide raid drivers so they
> compile up with the latest and greatest. I will leave it to
> others to decide if the pdcraid and silraid superblocks might
> be located somewhere past the capacity of an unsigned long...
The 2.4 block layer has a 32bit block limit so if it does they'll have
to use 2.6 anyway. Looks fine
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2003-08-17 19:17 Erik Andersen
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