From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [mdadm PATCH 0/2] two 3.1.3 regression fixes (incremental
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:47:12 +1000
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:46:38 -0700
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Neil,
> 
> The mdadm -I --no-degraded option needs to be acceptable for some time
> to come, do you have a policy for when deprecated options can be scheduled for
> removal?  The error code for -I shall be zero in the 'not enough' case to
> restore the correct and established pre-3.1.3 behavior.

No, I don't have a policy.  Given that this was introduced fairly recently I
don't feel a need to keep it around for very long.  I'd probably be happy to
see in go in 12 months, or with mdadm-v4.0, whichever is first.

Thanks,
NeilBrown