Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9/8 Backport recent 2.6 IDE updates to 2.4.x
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>,
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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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