Hi Alasdair, The following patches are clean-ups of dm for preparation of request-based dm-multipath. The patches are created on top of 2.6.27-rc6 + your linux-next patches (*1). But there is no functional dependency to the linux-next patches. (*1) The patches shown between "NEXT_PATCHES_START" and "NEXT_PATCHES_END" ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/dm/patches/2.6-unstable/editing-quilt/patches/series.html Please review and apply. The request-based dm-multipath patches (*2) depend on these clean-ups. I hope both patches are pushed to linux-next for 2.6.28. (*2) http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/12/100 Summary of the patches: 1/2: dm core: remove unused DM_WQ_FLUSH_ALL 2/2: dm core: tidy local_init (PATCH 1/2 is also included in the Milan's barrier support patch-set.) Thanks, Kiyoshi Ueda -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel