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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 3/5] dm: make v4 of the ioctl interface the default
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:39:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031126113901.GC463@reti> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031125234510.GG12662@fs.tum.de>
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:45:11AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:18:25PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:29:49PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > 'last few months' is extremely short for a migration path. Can't we
> > > ditch the v1 interface in 2.7 and allow people to migrate slowly?
> >
> > People still using LVM2/device-mapper userspace components that
> > don't support v4 really should upgrade them to fix some significant
> > (unrelated) issues with those old versions.
> >...
>
> The point is IMHO a different one:
>
> Kill the v1 interface before 2.6.0 or in 2.7 .
>
> It's never a good idea to remove something inside a stable kernel series
> (e.g. the DRI support for XFree86 4.0 will never be removed from 2.4).
Agreed, we'd like to do it before 2.6.0.
- Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-26 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-25 16:24 2.6.0-t10-dm1 Joe Thornber
2003-11-25 16:30 ` [Patch 1/5] dm: fix block device resizing Joe Thornber
2003-11-25 16:31 ` [Patch 2/5] dm: remove dynamic table resizing Joe Thornber
2003-11-25 16:33 ` [Patch 3/5] dm: make v4 of the ioctl interface the default Joe Thornber
2003-11-25 16:47 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-11-25 17:05 ` Joe Thornber
2003-11-25 17:15 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-11-25 18:00 ` Joe Thornber
2003-11-25 17:29 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-11-25 20:18 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2003-11-25 23:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-11-26 11:39 ` Joe Thornber [this message]
2003-11-25 17:09 ` Kevin Corry
2003-11-25 17:16 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-11-25 17:28 ` Kevin Corry
2003-11-25 17:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-25 17:59 ` Joe Thornber
2003-11-25 16:34 ` [Patch 4/5] dm: set io restriction defaults Joe Thornber
2003-11-25 16:35 ` [Patch 5/5] dm: dm_table_event() sleep on spinlock bug Joe Thornber
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