From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264994AbTGHGGz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 02:06:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265115AbTGHGGz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 02:06:55 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([195.224.96.167]:18450 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264994AbTGHGGz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 02:06:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:21:26 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Marcelo Tosatti , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] new quota code Message-ID: <20030708072126.A17566@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Marcelo Tosatti References: <200307072105.h67L50ir024592@hera.kernel.org> <3F09FC12.4070609@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3F09FC12.4070609@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:02:42PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:02:42PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > [1] This also mean completely dropping support for the interim ABI > > used in the early 32bit quota patches as it's mutally incompatible > > to the old ABI. But we never ever shipped that in any mainline kernels > > so there's no problem. > > > "no problem" being defined here as "multiple vendors shipped it but I > don't care", right? no problem as in this was neve supported in mainline and we don't need to introduce a third quota ABI to official kernels. The old ABI is still supported and the 2.5 one in addition. > Why do we need a third (fourth?) 2.4 quota abi/api floating around? We don't. We support the old one and the 2.5 one.