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Bug#61065: Adam Di Carlo: Re: Bug#61065: Need /dev/md0 for boot/install RAID support in root.bin



On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:53:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> > I will have to check into this.  The start of the problem is that there is
> > no proper software RAID support in the kernel source tree.  The software
> > RAID support which is present is years old and is referenced as v0.4x
> > RAID.  The newer code, which completely replaces the earlier code and is
> > currently being distributed as kernel source patches by Ingo Molnar (at
> > http://people.redhat.com/mingo) which is referenced as v0.90 RAID.
> 
> Ok -- you're asking for kernel patching.  This is not for us to
> decide.  This is for the kernel-source maintainer (Herbert Xu) to
> decide.  I would assume it's too late in the freeze process to change
> this in potato. I've CC'd him.

I won't do this for 2.2.14 or 2.2.15 since those who need this can easily
patch their own kernels to do it.  If someone wishes to make a kernel-patch
package for it, that would be OK though.
-- 
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