The patch titled md: skip all metadata update processing when using external metadata. has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was md-skip-all-metadata-update-processing-when-using-external-metadata.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: md: skip all metadata update processing when using external metadata. From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> All the metadata update processing for external metadata is on in user-space or through the sysfs interfaces, so make "md_update_sb" a no-op in that case. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-skip-all-metadata-update-processing-when-using-external-metadata drivers/md/md.c --- a/drivers/md/md.c~md-skip-all-metadata-update-processing-when-using-external-metadata +++ a/drivers/md/md.c @@ -1652,6 +1652,8 @@ static void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev int sync_req; int nospares = 0; + if (mddev->external) + return; repeat: spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are origin.patch sunrpc-assign-pde-data-before-gluing-pde-into-proc-tree.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