Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267497AbUJIWHu (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 18:07:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267502AbUJIWHu (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 18:07:50 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:46560 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267497AbUJIWHt (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 18:07:49 -0400 Message-ID: <41686121.7060607@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:07:29 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Martins Krikis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com Subject: Re: [Announce] "iswraid" (ICH5R/ICH6R ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.28-pre3 References: <20041009204425.49483.qmail@web13725.mail.yahoo.com> <200410092337.36488.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200410092337.36488.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 21 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > I may sound like an ignorant but... > > Why can't device mapper be merged into 2.4 instead? > Is there something wrong with 2.4 device mapper patch? > > It would more convenient (same driver for 2.4 and 2.6) > and would benefit users of other software RAIDs > (easier transition to 2.6). OTOH, that would be introducing a brand new RAID/LVM subsystem in the middle of a stable series... Jeff - 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/