From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
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>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:55:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8619FD.1080402@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120411235311.GA11310@kroah.com>
On 04/11/2012 04:53 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> That all seems pretty simple.
>
>> - get rid of the (rather broken) idea of 'legacy' vs 'non-legacy mode'
>> mount options in the default setup; I don't think userspace should
>> ever be required to fiddle with such stuff
>
> Hm, but if we get rid of them, what about tools that expect them to be
> there? Just silently ignore them?
>
Drop the newinstance mount option on the floor; keep recognizing the
ptmxmode mount option but change the default.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 23:56 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 [this message]
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
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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