On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:01:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/md_announce_whole_device.diff > > > > > > Vetoed. Kernel-level autodetection code is deprecated already, don't > > > even try to add functionality for it. > > > > 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 personally see the use for it, but alas. This have also been an for EVMS and the reason they`ve changed so radically change between 1.2 and 2.0 > 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. Yes. Personally I have different views on it, but that's the direction that especially the hardcore kernel developers on the linux kernel mailing list views the world and auto discovery etc. Hendrik - 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
