From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>, "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:04:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120412030425.GL6589@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe934e2f-3482-4c23-9091-8c8debf94794@email.android.com>
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 07:48:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The symlink support is at least 3 years old, probably more.
DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES wasn't anywhere near mandatory all that time...
Kernel upgrade procedure that starts with "build the old kernel with
that option enabled, boot it, replace /dev/ptmx with a symlink, then
never try to boot earlier kernel images. Now you can safely upgrade
to current kernel" is the recipe for massive self-LARTs (and resulting
pitchfork crowds).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-12 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-07 18:36 RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-07 19:20 ` Alan Cox
2012-04-07 20:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-07 21:27 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-07 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-08 7:30 ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-08 18:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-08 19:16 ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-11 23:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-11 23:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-12 0:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-12 0:38 ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-12 1:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-12 1:08 ` Al Viro
2012-04-12 1:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-12 2:26 ` Al Viro
2012-04-12 2:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-12 3:04 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-04-12 3:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-12 2:27 ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-12 2:45 ` Al Viro
2012-04-12 2:48 ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-12 2:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-12 3:02 ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-08 17:20 ` Alan Cox
2012-04-07 20:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-08 18:15 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-08 22:18 ` Alan Cox
2012-04-08 22:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-08 22:46 ` Alan Cox
2012-04-08 22:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-09 3:15 ` Theodore Tso
2012-04-09 12:43 ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-09 13:37 ` Al Viro
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