From: "H. Peter Anvin" This is purely a doc patch saying RAID-6 support is available in mdadm-1.5.0 and the patch is no longer necessary. --- drivers/md/Kconfig | 8 +------- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/Kconfig~raid6-doc-fix drivers/md/Kconfig --- 25/drivers/md/Kconfig~raid6-doc-fix 2004-01-21 21:56:21.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/Kconfig 2004-01-21 21:56:21.000000000 -0800 @@ -124,12 +124,7 @@ config MD_RAID6 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives in one of the available parity distribution methods. - RAID-6 currently requires a specially patched version of - mdadm; the patch is available at: - - ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/ - - ... and the mdadm source code at ... + RAID-6 requires mdadm-1.5.0 or later, available at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ @@ -137,7 +132,6 @@ config MD_RAID6 this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid6. - If unsure, say N. config MD_MULTIPATH _