From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763539AbXH1T1X (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:27:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761808AbXH1TLc (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:11:32 -0400 Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.182]:64792 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761781AbXH1TL3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:11:29 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=smnVd35hqzHgAYzIHWJMfvoR2aLQthrp1+S9Us/8AW214BZpTClxadhGKy8xbJn9514nM9SvmRSPk9r1gTG6f0f4Veh016673gUwRGan0L1J/1T1EgAaLjYjgKorK9PRLAKjsN7saQ2Z0s77zN5O61OKGzdNDvoao3Jz3bFunJ8= Message-ID: <4877c76c0708281211s55aded4ajceb283da25223659@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:11:15 -0700 From: "Michael Evans" To: "Randy Dunlap" Subject: Re: [patch v3 1/1] md: Software Raid autodetect dev list not array Cc: "Bill Davidsen" , "Michael J. Evans" , "Neil Brown" , "Ingo Molnar" , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <46D459C9.9050709@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200708222058.45480.mjevans1983@comcast.net> <20070827153020.43788e21.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <200708272138.19785.mjevans1983@comcast.net> <46D3A8AD.6000701@oracle.com> <4877c76c0708280608m529296edgd83f9c08e3918815@mail.gmail.com> <46D421F6.50205@tmr.com> <4877c76c0708280632t3eb40d01od1267c8c4a7d8de@mail.gmail.com> <46D44A09.5060901@oracle.com> <4877c76c0708281010x4597a9cfpc252dc4ee2a0ef9e@mail.gmail.com> <46D459C9.9050709@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/28/07, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Michael Evans wrote: > > On 8/28/07, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> Michael Evans wrote: > >>> On 8/28/07, Bill Davidsen 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. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>> There's another list I should CC to? Or does the section maintainer > >>> do that when they're happy with the patch? > >> Not another list; just cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org so that he can merge > >> it into the -mm kernel patches for testing. Most patches cook in the -mm > >> kernel(s) before they are merged into mainline. > >> > >> Then generally the subsystem maintainer(s) are responsible for sending > >> patches on to Linus for merging into mainline, if/when they are happy > >> with the patch and they think that it has been tested enough. > >> > > > > So I should look at the git documentation again, try to pull down > > Andrew's latest -mm, and see what I need to change (if anything) to > > patch against it? (I would probably only verify that boots once my > > self given the other testing this has already seen and how often mm > > breaks things my mythtv box likes, such as nvidia-drivers, etc,) > > -mm is available only as a patchset, not via git. > There has been a git version of it, but it's not currently working and > hasn't been for 2 months or so. > > I mostly use the grab_kernel script that I mentioned. It knows how > to download linux-2.6.M and how to apply -rcN, -gitN, and/or -mmN > patches to the base (linux-2.6.M). > > E.g.: > grab_kernel 2.6.23-rc3-git6 $PWD > or > grab_kernel 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 $PWD > > > -- > ~Randy > *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** > 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.