The patch titled md: improve message about invalid superblock during autodetect has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is md-improve-message-about-invalid-superblock-during-autodetect.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: md: improve message about invalid superblock during autodetect From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> People try to use raid auto-detect with version-1 superblocks (which is not supported) and get confused when they are told they have an invalid superblock. So be more explicit, and say it it is not a valid v0.90 superblock. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-improve-message-about-invalid-superblock-during-autodetect drivers/md/md.c --- a/drivers/md/md.c~md-improve-message-about-invalid-superblock-during-autodetect +++ a/drivers/md/md.c @@ -2073,9 +2073,11 @@ static mdk_rdev_t *md_import_device(dev_ err = super_types[super_format]. load_super(rdev, NULL, super_minor); if (err == -EINVAL) { - printk(KERN_WARNING - "md: %s has invalid sb, not importing!\n", - bdevname(rdev->bdev,b)); + printk(KERN_WARNING + "md: %s does not have a valid v%d.%d " + "superblock, not importing!\n", + bdevname(rdev->bdev,b), + super_format, super_minor); goto abort_free; } if (err < 0) { @@ -5772,7 +5774,7 @@ static void autostart_arrays(int part) for (i = 0; i < dev_cnt; i++) { dev_t dev = detected_devices[i]; - rdev = md_import_device(dev,0, 0); + rdev = md_import_device(dev,0, 90); if (IS_ERR(rdev)) continue; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are git-md-accel.patch md-avoid-overflow-in-raid0-calculation-with-large-components.patch md-dont-write-more-than-is-required-of-the-last-page-of-a-bitmap.patch md-fix-bug-with-linear-hot-add-and-elsewhere.patch knfsd-exportfs-add-exportfsh-header.patch knfsd-exportfs-add-exportfsh-header-fix.patch knfsd-exportfs-remove-iget-abuse.patch knfsd-exportfs-remove-iget-abuse-fix.patch knfsd-exportfs-add-procedural-interface-for-nfsd.patch knfsd-exportfs-remove-call-macro.patch knfsd-exportfs-untangle-isdir-logic-in-find_exported_dentry.patch knfsd-exportfs-move-acceptable-check-into-find_acceptable_alias.patch knfsd-exportfs-add-find_disconnected_root-helper.patch knfsd-exportfs-split-out-reconnecting-a-dentry-from-find_exported_dentry.patch nfsd-warning-fix.patch use-menuconfig-objects-ii-md.patch md-improve-message-about-invalid-superblock-during-autodetect.patch md-improve-the-is_mddev_idle-test-fix.patch md-check-that-internal-bitmap-does-not-overlap-other-data.patch md-change-bitmap_unplug-and-others-to-void-functions.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html