Re: [PATCH 01/15] xfs: update mount options documentation

Ben Myers
2013-06-27T19:08:34Z

Hey Dave,

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 09:48:14AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 04:04:45PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> >
> > Because it's horribly out of date.
> >
> > And mark various deprecated options as deprecated and give them a
> > removal date.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
>
> Regarding removal of these mount options and sysctls: initially these all look
> pretty reasonable but we need to be very careful here. I've read some
> discussions on lkml that seem to suggest that such interfaces which have been
> exported to userspace shouldn't be removed at all. Not that I want to keep
> around a bunch of worn out interfaces...
>
> Applied.

On second thought... Not pushed.

I'm going to hold off on pushing this one to oss for now because I'm just not
comfortable with it yet. I can pull this in sans the removal notices if you
want. Lets discuss whether the removal of deprecated mount options and sysctls
is acceptable before announcing an intention to remove them. I'm trending no,
but I can be flexible if this really is ok.

I'm thinking of the 3.3 glusterfs and 3.8 pulseaudio reakeage. And I would
really like to have a nice holiday weekend. ;)

Thanks,
Ben