Hello Neil ,
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, NeilBrown wrote:
Following are two patches for md in 2.6.14-mm2 that are suitable to go
into the 2.6.15-rc series.
The first adds a date to the deprecation of START_ARRAY ioctl.
The second fixes a recently introduced problem that causes md threads
to permanently add to the load average (other than that, every works
fine).
[PATCH md 001 of 2] Mark START_ARRAY deprecated with a date.
[PATCH md 002 of 2] Make md threads interruptible again.
diff ./Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~current~
/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
--- ./Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~current~ 2005-11-15
10:25:30.000000000 +1100
+++ ./Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2005-11-15
10:25:30.000000000 +1100
@@ -131,3 +131,12 @@ What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
When: January 2006
Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
Who: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md
+When: July 2006
+Files: drivers/md/md.c
+Why: Not reliable by design - can fail when most needed.
+ Alternatives exist
+Who: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Would some please update Documentation/md.txt with the alternates
that exist to replace START_ARRAY ? Or for that matter any kernel
related document that covers the md driver &/or its tools .
Tia , JimL
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