Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:53:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:53:52 -0500 Received: from dhcp34.trinity.linux.conf.au ([130.95.169.34]:10112 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:53:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] IDE OnTrack remap for 2.5.58 From: Alan Cox To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: jim.houston@attbi.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1043190115.1384.15.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 (1.2.1-2) Date: 21 Jan 2003 23:01:56 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 11:08, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 18:14, Jim Houston wrote: > > I went back and looked through the patches and found that the remapping > > support was removed in patch-2.5.30. The comments in the mailing list > > suggest that it belonged in user space. > > [of course a shift cannot be done in user space] Maybe it can. One reason ide/raid/*.c isnt in 2.5 is that I hope we can use the device mapper to remove the entire chunk of code for these. dm may also be sufficient to do the block shift. > I think both Andre and Martin were happy, but maybe you mean nobody > asked you? Are you unhappy with this change? And if so, why? By volume of mail I get about it. I hadn't realised just how common DM was. I'd prefer to make device mapper do it though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/