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From: Geoffrey Wehrman <gwehrman@sgi.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] xfs: update mount options documentation
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:58:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130628195827.GB15447@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CDBE90.5090309@sandeen.net>

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:49:20PM -0400, Eric Sandeen wrote:
| On 6/28/13 11:39 AM, Geoffrey Wehrman wrote:
| > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:32:04PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
| > | On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:09:12PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
| > | > Mount options are perfectly fine to be removed - they've been given
| > | > deprecated warnings for quite some time now (the most recent is the
| > | > delaylog which has been doing that since 3.1 IIRC). So they are all
| > | > fine to actually remove - 12 months warning is usually considered
| > | > sufficient.
| > 
| > I hardly consider 12 years to be sufficient.  I have no problem with
| 
| 12 years, really?  Maybe you meant months.  I hope you meant months!

I really did mean 12 years.  About as long as my dog lived.

| > | > I think you're being overly paranoid here - I'm simply following the
| > | > normal deprecation protocol here....
| > | 
| > | Documenation/ABI/README:
| > | 
| > | We have four different levels of ABI stability, as shown by the four
| > | different subdirectories in this location.  Interfaces may change levels
| > | of stability according to the rules described below.
| > | ....
| > |  obsolete/
| > |          This directory documents interfaces that are still remaining in
| > | 	 the kernel, but are marked to be removed at some later point in
| > | 	 time.  The description of the interface will document the reason
| > | 	 why it is obsolete and when it can be expected to be removed.
| > 
| > 
| > | I think you'll find that what I done follows this policy. If you
| > | really want, I'll move them to Documenation/ABI/obsolete.  And, of
| > | course, if removing them proves to be a problem, as Eric said we can
| > | always reinstate them or remove the deprecation notices.

Please move the mount options and sysctl interfaces removed to
Documenation/ABI/obsolete.  In return, I'll refrain from ranting further
about the ABI instability of Linux.


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Geoffrey Wehrman  651-683-5496  gwehrman@sgi.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-28 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-27  6:04 [PATCH 00/15] xfs: patchset for 3.11 Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 01/15] xfs: update mount options documentation Dave Chinner
2013-06-27 14:48   ` Ben Myers
2013-06-27 19:08     ` Ben Myers
2013-06-28  2:09       ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-28  2:32         ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-28 15:39           ` Geoffrey Wehrman
2013-06-28 16:49             ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-28 19:58               ` Geoffrey Wehrman [this message]
2013-06-28 17:27             ` Ric Wheeler
2013-06-28 19:39           ` Ben Myers
2013-06-29  2:38             ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-28  2:18       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-28 20:46         ` Ben Myers
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 02/15] xfs: add pluging for bulkstat readahead Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 03/15] xfs: plug directory buffer readahead Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 04/15] xfs: don't use speculative prealloc for small files Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 05/15] xfs: don't do IO when creating an new inode Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 06/15] xfs: xfs_ifree doesn't need to modify the inode buffer Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 07/15] xfs: Introduce ordered log vector support Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 08/15] xfs: Introduce an ordered buffer item Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 09/15] xfs: Inode create log items Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 10/15] xfs: Inode create transaction reservations Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 11/15] xfs: Inode create item recovery Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 12/15] xfs: Use inode create transaction Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 13/15] xfs: remove local fork format handling from xfs_bmapi_write() Dave Chinner
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 14/15] xfs: dquot log reservations are too small Dave Chinner
2013-06-27 14:38   ` Mark Tinguely
2013-06-28 17:18   ` Chandra Seetharaman
2013-06-29  2:42     ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-09 19:31       ` Ben Myers
2013-07-09 20:39         ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-09 20:42           ` Ben Myers
2013-06-27  6:04 ` [PATCH 15/15] xfs: implement inode change count Dave Chinner
2013-06-27 15:06   ` Mark Tinguely
2013-06-28 16:07   ` Chandra Seetharaman
2013-06-28 18:00   ` Ben Myers
2013-06-27 19:48 ` [PATCH 00/15] xfs: patchset for 3.11 Ben Myers

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