Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-02,: Re: First draft list of 2.3.x "Things to fix"

# Re: First draft list of 2.3.x "Things to fix"

Kristofer T. Karas (ktk@ktk.bidmc.harvard.edu)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:22:09 -0500

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Sean Hunter wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:51:06PM -0500, Kristofer T. Karas wrote:
> > * "Got md request, not good..."
> Could someone who knows just inform us why the "new" raid stuff that I
> have had working on my production servers for at least 6 months isn't
> in the dev kernel?

It is in the devo kernel, and it works fine in kernels up through 2.3.31 (and
.32?). The "problem" is that somebody made a patch which broke MD, and said patch
author never offered to fix their handiwork.

Where I work, there's an "if you break it, you fix it" mandate. (And if you can't
fix it, you come forward and offer those who can some help.) But that's a minority
opinion on L-K, where the cutting-edge emphasis puts technology several steps ahead
of the stable bug-fixes. I'm not complaining, mind you; the SCSI mid-level code
cleanups and so forth are much needed, and I'm glad they went in. But I think the
MD breakage has gone on long enough now that the authors of the new technology
should make a token effort to spruce up the fringes of their efforts.

KTK

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