Hello Neil , On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, NeilBrown wrote:
Following are two patches for md in 2.6.14-mm2 that are suitable to go into the 2.6.15-rc series. The first adds a date to the deprecation of START_ARRAY ioctl. The second fixes a recently introduced problem that causes md threads to permanently add to the load average (other than that, every works fine). [PATCH md 001 of 2] Mark START_ARRAY deprecated with a date. [PATCH md 002 of 2] Make md threads interruptible again.
diff ./Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~current~ /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt --- ./Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~current~ 2005-11-15 10:25:30.000000000 +1100 +++ ./Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2005-11-15 10:25:30.000000000 +1100 @@ -131,3 +131,12 @@ What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash) When: January 2006 Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead. Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> + +--------------------------- + +What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md +When: July 2006 +Files: drivers/md/md.c +Why: Not reliable by design - can fail when most needed. + Alternatives exist +Who: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Would some please update Documentation/md.txt with the alternates that exist to replace START_ARRAY ? Or for that matter any kernel related document that covers the md driver &/or its tools . Tia , JimL -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 3542 Broken Yoke Dr. | Give me Linux | | babydr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Billings , MT. 59105 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
