> do you know if there are already the raid alpha patches available
> for kernel 2.2.4 ?
> at www.us.kernel.org/....  the latest I found is for 2.2.3.
> or can I apply the raid-2.2.3 patch over a 2.2.4 kernel ?

They appear to work OK, except for fs/buffer.c and include/linux/genhd.h
Below is "diff -u | gzip | uuencode" of what I HACKed up -- seems to work.

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