rocklinux/package/base/linux26/82-raid5-niceer-output.patch

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I also sent this patch to the kernel hackers - because the output is
really confusing when the software RAID code does not choose the fastest
mode ... Rene

--- linuxi.orig/drivers/md/xor.c	Sun Sep 30 21:26:06 2001
+++ linux/drivers/md/xor.c	Fri Dec  7 18:16:10 2001
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@
 
 #ifdef XOR_SELECT_TEMPLATE
 	fastest = XOR_SELECT_TEMPLATE(fastest);
+	printk("raid5: using %s to write around L2 cache\n",
+		fastest->name);
 #endif
 
 	active_template = fastest;