I think my previous pull request suffered from some conflicts with the compat_ioctl changes. Here is a new one with a couple of small additions from Dan Williams. Thanks, NeilBrown The following changes since commit f40542532e96dda5506eb76badea322f2ae4731c: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'ixp4xx' of git://git.kernel.org/.../chris/linux-2.6 are available in the git repository at: git://neil.brown.name/md for-linus Arnd Bergmann (1): md: move compat_ioctl handling into md.c Dan Williams (2): md: rcu_read_lock() walk of mddev->disks in md_do_sync() md: add 'recovery_start' per-device sysfs attribute NeilBrown (22): md/bitmap: protect against bitmap removal while being updated. md/raid5: remove some sparse warnings. md: remove sparse warning:symbol XXX was not declared. md: adjust resync_min usefully when resync aborts. md: don't reset curr_resync_completed after an interrupted resync md: support barrier requests on all personalities. md/raid5: don't complete make_request on barrier until writes are scheduled md: add honouring of suspend_{lo,hi} to raid1. md/raid1: add takeover support for raid5->raid1 md: collect bitmap-specific fields into one structure. md: move offset, daemon_sleep and chunksize out of bitmap structure md: change daemon_sleep to be in 'jiffies' rather than 'seconds'. md: remove needless setting of thread->timeout in raid10_quiesce md: support bitmap offset appropriate for external-metadata arrays. md: factor out parsing of fixed-point numbers md: support updating bitmap parameters via sysfs. md/bitmap: move setting of daemon_lastrun out of bitmap_read_sb md: Support write-intent bitmaps with externally managed metadata. md/bitmap: update dirty flag when bitmap bits are explicitly set. md: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION for all md related modules. md: revise Kconfig help for MD_MULTIPATH md: integrate spares into array at earliest opportunity. Robert Becker (2): md/raid10: print more useful messages on device failure. raid: improve MD/raid10 handling of correctable read errors. Documentation/md.txt | 72 +++++++- drivers/md/Kconfig | 9 +- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 449 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ drivers/md/bitmap.h | 19 +-- drivers/md/faulty.c | 1 + drivers/md/linear.c | 3 +- drivers/md/md.c | 393 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- drivers/md/md.h | 51 ++++-- drivers/md/multipath.c | 3 +- drivers/md/raid0.c | 3 +- drivers/md/raid1.c | 217 +++++++++++++++-------- drivers/md/raid1.h | 5 + drivers/md/raid10.c | 116 +++++++++++-- drivers/md/raid5.c | 63 +++++-- drivers/md/raid6algos.c | 20 +-- fs/compat_ioctl.c | 18 -- include/linux/raid/pq.h | 19 ++ 17 files changed, 1146 insertions(+), 315 deletions(-) -- 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