> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:54:05AM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:33:12PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> A patch to fs/partitions/check.c is also required for this >> >> release to function correctly: >> >> Hmm. I don't think Jeff wrote that. > > That's why it's doubly-quoted, right? Hmm. I didn't realize that Jeff was ever part of this thread. I authored the text that you quoted and was just surprised to see Jeff's name near it. Never mind. >> So do you speak for the entire community in expressing that auto-detection >> will never make sense in the kernel? Are you completely unwilling to >> entertain even a minor discussion on the topic for those of us that don't >> understand the concerns the community has in supporting it? > > I speak about the concencus the 'community' has reached in the past. > If you invested the tiniest amount of googling you'd have seen messages > from Neil where he sais he'd rather get rid of autodetection ioctls > in favour of mdadm doing the work, and patches extending autodetection > beeing rejected. Which pretty much fits into the general do it in > userspace if you can rule. I'm aware of Neil's past comments on the subject, but I was not aware of a more full discussion on what this means in terms of lost functionality for Linux. I would like to have that discussion. I'm more than willing to adjust our strategy once that discussion takes place and a consensus is reached. -- Justin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
