Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266202AbUALPNl (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:13:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266198AbUALPNk (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:13:40 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:14980 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266144AbUALPMs (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:12:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:12:30 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Martin Peschke3 Cc: Jens Axboe , Doug Ledford , Peter Yao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi mailing list , ihno@suse.de Subject: Re: smp dead lock of io_request_lock/queue_lock patch Message-ID: <20040112151230.GB5844@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1640 Lines: 45 --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:07:40PM +0100, Martin Peschke3 wrote: > as the patch discussed in this thread, i.e. pure (partially > vintage) bugfixes. Both SuSE and Red Hat submit bugfixes they put in the respective trees to marcelo already. There will not be many "pure bugfixes" that you can find in vendor trees but not in marcelo's tree. > If people agree in that course also about a clean, common > iorl-patch, that would be another step forward, in my opinion. None of the vendors in question is still doing development based on 2.4 (in fact I suspect no linux vendor/distro still is) so if you want vendors to go to a joint patch for such a specific enhancement, which WILL include development, I really don't see the point. Neither SuSE nor Red Hat will be jumping from joy to do a lot of work to replace a patch that works in their respective existing products with something else with no clear gain at all, while requiring significant work and stability risks. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAArldxULwo51rQBIRAiW9AJoCsHnL+pXD+m3kJ/2lJdAF3BObNwCbBlWg sNc5hxtqMGQk7YSZUm/zUUs= =PLYe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB-- - 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/