Hello Patrik ,
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Patrik Jonsson wrote:
Neil Brown wrote:
I always make them against the latest -mm kernel, so that would be a
good place to start. However things change quickly and I can't
promise it will apply against whatever is the 'latest' today.
If you would like to nominate a particular recent kernel, I'll create
a patch set that is guaranteed to apply against that. (Testing is
always appreciated, and well worth that small effort on my part).
I find this is a major problem for me, too. Even though I try to stay up
to date with the md developments, I have a hard time piecing together
which past patches went with which version, so if I get a recent version
I don't know which patches need to be applied and which are already in
there.
My suggestion is that Neil, should he be willing, keep a log somewhere
which detail kernel version and what major updates in md functionality
go along with it. Something like
2.6.14 raid5 read error correction
2.6.15 md /sys interface
2.6.16.rc1 raid5 reshape
2.6.16.rc2-mm4 something else cool
it would include the released kernels and the previews of the current
kernel. That way, say I see that the latest FC4 kernel is 2.6.14, I
could look and see that since the raid5 read error correction was
included, I don't have to go looking for the patches.
Maybe this is too much hassle (or maybe it's already out there
somewhere) but I'm thinking simple, and I think it would give a
high-level overview of the development for us who are not intimately
involved in every kernel version.
Iirc , The git/snv/cvs repositories 'can' contain this
information . Neil (as you say , if willing) can pull the
kernel versions & Notes for his submissions from the
repository . Hth , JimL
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