From: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
Cc: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>,
Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 3/5] dm: make v4 of the ioctl interface the default
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:00:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031125180016.GI524@reti> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FC38E26.9080602@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:15:18AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Joe Thornber wrote:
>
> >For the last few months the tools have supported both v1 and v4
> >interfaces, allowing people to roll back to older kernels. I will
> >update the Kconfig help as you suggest to be more specific about the
> >tool versions.
>
> My biggest concern here is that even if someone downloads the latest
> device-mapper tools tarball and compiles it on their system, unless they
> specifically point it at 2.6 kernel headers it won't compile in v4 ioctl
> support, so they could be unpleasantly surprised.
The tools build against their own copies of the header files.
- Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-25 17:59 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 [this message]
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
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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