[dm-devel] Re: [PATCHSET] block,scsi,libata: implement alt_size
Jeff Garzik
jeff at garzik.org
Fri May 8 16:21:45 UTC 2009
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org> wrote:
>>> Pushing this in the kernel without updating dm-raid is kind of
>>> pointless. Who should I be poking to get the userland part moving?
>> Dmraid is not the only potential user. Mdadm will also care about
>> this as I have seen a report that points to a user having what looks
>> like an HPA issue with an Intel(R) Matrix array. So, there are two
>> immediate users for this interface. Heinz is the right person to poke
>> for dmraid updates. I'll handle the mdadm update.
>
> Alright, then. With Jeff's reluctant ack and scheduled mdadm update,
> I guess this one can go upstream. I'll refresh the patchset and
> repost. Umm... BTW do I have Heinz's mail address right?
The email addr is correct according to dmraid-current.tar.bz2 (dated Sep
2008), at least. I don't have any better info.
Jeff
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