Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764249AbXH1Tbc (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:31:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762411AbXH1TRT (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:17:19 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:64319 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762152AbXH1TRQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:17:16 -0400 Message-ID: <46D4748A.4070909@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:16:26 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Evans CC: Bill Davidsen , "Michael J. Evans" , Neil Brown , Ingo Molnar , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch v3 1/1] md: Software Raid autodetect dev list not array References: <200708222058.45480.mjevans1983@comcast.net> <20070827153020.43788e21.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <200708272138.19785.mjevans1983@comcast.net> <46D3A8AD.6000701@oracle.com> <4877c76c0708280608m529296edgd83f9c08e3918815@mail.gmail.com> <46D421F6.50205@tmr.com> <4877c76c0708280632t3eb40d01od1267c8c4a7d8de@mail.gmail.com> <46D44A09.5060901@oracle.com> <4877c76c0708281010x4597a9cfpc252dc4ee2a0ef9e@mail.gmail.com> <46D459C9.9050709@oracle.com> <4877c76c0708281211s55aded4ajceb283da25223659@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4877c76c0708281211s55aded4ajceb283da25223659@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1608 Lines: 33 Michael Evans wrote: > On 8/28/07, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> Michael Evans wrote: >>> On 8/28/07, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>>> Michael Evans wrote: >>>>> On 8/28/07, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>>>>> Michael Evans wrote: >>>>>>> Oh, I see. I forgot about the changelogs. I'd send out version 5 >>>>>>> now, but I'm not sure what kernel version to make the patch against. >>>>>>> 2.6.23-rc4 is on kernel.org and I don't see any git snapshots. >>>>>>> Additionally I never could tell what git tree was the 'mainline' as it >>>>>>> isn't labeled with such a keyword (at least in the list of git trees I >>>>>>> saw). >>>>>> I suspect you wait for 2.5.23 release, or send it to AKPM for inclusion >>>>>> in an "-mm" kernel. That's probably desirable, anyway. > > Gentoo's mm-sources is version 2.6.23-rc3-mm1, which I'd guess is > close enough for an area like this. Given that I didn't need to make > any changes to the patch should I just submit it to the mm for testing > without rebooting in to an mm-sources kernel? I need to schedule when > I do that so it would take me overnight to do so. Yes, I think that you can go ahead with that, but it's up to the subsystem maintainers where/when it goes from there. -- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - 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/