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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:51:26 +0200
From: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions" <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Chris McDermott <lcm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 0/4: Add the ability to splice a list into another list
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Darrick,
that's what the t_group type is for.
Is there a reason, why you couldn't use that as already down
s/down/done/
for Intel Software RAID (isw.[ch]) and designed for other flavours
such as DDF ?
Regards,
Heinz
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:21:19PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> These are preliminary patches to modify dmraid so that we can have
> multiple raid_dev structures per physical device. The DDF1
> specification allows for a disk to participate in multiple RAID arrays,
> which is what is gained from these patches. They've been tested against
> 2.6.16.19 + dmraid45 on Ubuntu 6.06, and seem to be pretty stable. At
> this stage, I'm looking for comments about the code because it touches
> core dmraid code and could (but shouldn't) break support for hardware
> that I don't have.
>
> This first patch is a simple one that adds an operation to splice a
> headless doubly-linked list into an existing headed list. The headless
> lists are created in the second patch.
>
> --D
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
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