Re: [PATCH 000 of 4] md: Introduction

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Aug 24 2006 - 18:06:29 EST


On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:40:56 +1000
NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Following are 4 patches against 2.6.18-rc4-mm2
>
> The first 2 are bug fixes which should go in 2.6.18, and apply
> equally well to that tree as to -mm.
>
> The latter two should stay in -mm until after 2.6.18.
>
> The second patch is maybe bigger than it absolutely needs to be as a bugfix.
> If you like I can stripe out all the rcu-extra-carefulness as a separate
> patch and just leave the important bit which involves moving the
> atomic_add down twenty-something lines.
>
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
>
> [PATCH 001 of 4] md: Fix recent breakage of md/raid1 array checking
> [PATCH 002 of 4] md: Fix issues with referencing rdev in md/raid1.
> [PATCH 003 of 4] md: new sysfs interface for setting bits in the write-intent-bitmap
> [PATCH 004 of 4] md: Remove unnecessary variable x in stripe_to_pdidx().

The second patch is against -mm and doesn't come within a mile of applying
to mainline.

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