On Monday December 8, dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi Neil, > > So here is a second attempt at platform support. I asked around about > scanning for the option-rom and the solution I settled on was to port > the kernel's "Adapter ROM" detection code to userspace (probe_roms.c > from arch/x86/kernel/probe_roms_32.c). This at least makes mdadm bug > compatible with the kernel, and avoids scanning the entire region > indiscriminately. > > Create support got two major fixes: > 1/ calculating a common start offset by merging get_extents() results > 2/ explicitly passing the target member disks in the metadata update > message > > Despite the platform support and these fixes I am still investigating > whether mdadm can create configurations that the option-rom does not > understand. Stay tuned... > > Lastly I added a regression test to stress the overlapping create case, > it adds some infrastructure for tests to define their own environment. > > As always, please have a look. Thanks. I confess I haven't read all of the details, but I've looked at the "interesting" parts (for some value of 'interesting') and they seem to make sense. Pulled and pushed. Thanks. NeilBrown -- 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
