Following are 29 patches for md suitable for 2.6.27. The first three are for bugs that can trigger oops or data corruption. They are possibly suitable for 2.6.26 and for -stable. There are some bug fixes, some minor feature enhancement (mostly related to sysfs control of arrays) and some raid5 cleanups Thanks, NeilBrown [PATCH 001 of 29] md: Ensure interrupted recovery completed properly (v1 metadata plus bitmap) [PATCH 002 of 29] md: Don't acknowlege that stripe-expand is complete until it really is. [PATCH 003 of 29] md: Fix error paths if md_probe fails. [PATCH 004 of 29] md: linear: correct disk numbering error check [PATCH 005 of 29] md: use bio_endio instead of a call to bi_end_io [PATCH 006 of 29] md: Improve setting of "events_cleared" for write-intent bitmaps. [PATCH 007 of 29] md: Allow setting start point for requested check/repair [PATCH 008 of 29] md: Close race in md_probe [PATCH 009 of 29] md: Don't try to make md arrays dirty if that is not meaningful. [PATCH 010 of 29] md: Enable setting of 'offset' and 'size' of a hot-added spare. [PATCH 011 of 29] md: Support adding a spare to a live md array with external metadata. [PATCH 012 of 29] md: rationalise return value for ->hot_add_disk method. [PATCH 013 of 29] md: Don't reject HOT_REMOVE_DISK request for an array that is not yet started. [PATCH 014 of 29] md: Make sure all changes to md/array_state are notified. [PATCH 015 of 29] md: Make sure all changes to md/sync_action are notified. [PATCH 016 of 29] md: Make sure all changes to md/degraded are notified. [PATCH 017 of 29] md: Make sure all changes to md/dev-XX/state are notified [PATCH 018 of 29] md: Support changing rdev size on running arrays. [PATCH 019 of 29] md: md: kill STRIPE_OP_MOD_DMA in raid5 offload [PATCH 020 of 29] md: md: kill STRIPE_OP_IO flag [PATCH 021 of 29] md: md: use stripe_head_state in ops_run_io() [PATCH 022 of 29] md: md: unify raid5/6 i/o submission [PATCH 023 of 29] md: md: replace STRIPE_OP_CHECK with 'check_states' [PATCH 024 of 29] md: md: replace STRIPE_OP_BIOFILL with STRIPE_BIOFILL_RUN [PATCH 025 of 29] md: md: replace STRIPE_OP_COMPUTE_BLK with STRIPE_COMPUTE_RUN [PATCH 026 of 29] md: md: replace STRIPE_OP_{BIODRAIN,PREXOR,POSTXOR} with 'reconstruct_states' [PATCH 027 of 29] md: md: replace R5_WantPrexor with R5_WantDrain, add 'prexor' reconstruct_states [PATCH 028 of 29] md: md: handle operation chaining in raid5_run_ops [PATCH 029 of 29] md: md: rationalize raid5 function names -- 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