Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261265AbVBGTcS (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:32:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261268AbVBGTcR (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:32:17 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.202.55]:15003 "EHLO sccrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261265AbVBGTb3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:31:29 -0500 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Martins Krikis , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29 References: <1107701373.22680.115.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050207182921.3015.qmail@web30206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> From: Martins Krikis In-Reply-To: Date: 07 Feb 2005 14:30:47 -0500 Message-ID: <87d5vc9nh4.fsf_-_@yahoo.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1441 Lines: 29 Martins Krikis writes: > I do realize that Intel should have asked a long time ago for it > to be considered for acceptance (I did ask back in October for > 2.4.28). Sorry about all the noise, but I just remembered some other important aspects that played a role here. Intel couldn't really ask for the inclusion of iswraid into the tree much earlier than October because iswraid depends on either ata_piix or ahci, both part of libata. Libata was included in 2.4.27, ata_piix in 2.4.28, ahci in 2.4.29. So I first asked for iswraid to be considered during 2.4.28-pre3 stage. I was told that it's almost being released and that I should wait for 2.4.29. There was also a discussion about whether it even belongs or whether dm belongs more. With 2.4.29 I forgot to remind everybody to look at iswraid and when I did it was too late for 2.4.29 and Marcelo asked Jeff to review it for 2.4.30-pre1. (And thanks for your support, Jeff.) In short, I only first asked for it to be included with 2.4.28, but I could not have done it earlier than that anyway because drivers it depends on weren't yet in 2.4. Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts - 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/