Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267554AbUJIXgb (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:36:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267556AbUJIXgb (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:36:31 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:52965 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267554AbUJIXg3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:36:29 -0400 Message-ID: <416875ED.6090503@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 19:36:13 -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> <41686121.7060607@pobox.com> <58cb370e0410091622423bded0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58cb370e0410091622423bded0@mail.gmail.com> 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: 1216 Lines: 40 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:07:29 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>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... > > > Quoting Marcelo: > > >>New drivers are OK, as long as they dont break existing setups, >>and if substantial amount of users will benefit from it. > > > IMHO both conditions are fulfilled. Note I said "subsystem", Marcelo said "driver". I don't object to adding DM to 2.4.x, but I think it's a rather large addition with consequences WRT LVM1 versus LVM2, and perhaps other issues as well. 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/