Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762381AbYJKSew (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:34:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754924AbYJKSem (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:34:42 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.186]:22696 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754282AbYJKSem (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:34:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent:from; b=jCDEzznvOXGuilHkYnf10LsHgAvC4qkvYi3dBIbUOXEYWb3ehDYVh7jyJoHInCAvqm 8IA52lPBHOoqEix3MOdeHKryfvzsB3/S/CrEl8CU/+afvFVL8h31aLqyWkh77zwBvRp0 Lwo1Et1lhBy3qT4O8CVtgDUd/UFgIqB5o+ERc= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:34:36 +0200 To: Jens Axboe Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Robert Hancock , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements Message-ID: <20081011183436.GA10948@gollum.tnic> Reply-To: petkovbb@gmail.com Mail-Followup-To: petkovbb@gmail.com, Jens Axboe , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Robert Hancock , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200810111645.27847.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20081011150532.GU19428@kernel.dk> <200810111756.37278.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20081011175617.GX19428@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081011175617.GX19428@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) From: Borislav Petkov Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1754 Lines: 35 > > The actual users' feedback about amount of IDE changes have been mostly > > positive (some ask for even more changes :) so I don't think that it > > should be a reason of a great worries. I hope that all other concerns > > have been also cleared now. > > Heck that's good, I do hope that I'm mostly over-concerned! I'm not > trying to create a problem where there isn't one, mainly looking for > clarity into the situation. > > I noticed one ide-tape tested complaining something broke, and it seems > like he was the only one out there actually using current kernels and > testing it. I worry mostly about the changes breaking somebodys distro 3 > years down the line, by which point people may have moved on (and the > old code would have worked). We try to fix those as fast as possible and they become highest priority. If we're talking about the same thing, aka 801bd32e205ca6ef78dcaf80121f1eccb89b8c1e, this is obviously already fixed. It's not like everything is fine with the older code either. For example, I'm staring at traces w.r.t. bug 11581 which somehow broke ide-cd around the 2.6.19 timeframe and this has been broken for that particular user since then. So I think that what we do now, generally that anyone is doing something about that code, replying to bug reports and working with users to solve problems is, IMO, a lot bigger advantage than doing nothing at all. But your concern is also valid and we're doing our best to avoid such regressions. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- 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/