From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752801Ab2BUECm (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:02:42 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:49478 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750905Ab2BUECl (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:02:41 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: JQJNW25Dirwpv/rSoExzfhhnLDYY4OoV4bZN2dgsle+FAPvb0A2lqhOhaA 1329796960 Message-ID: <1329796956.2226.20.camel@perseus.themaw.net> Subject: Re: Linux 3.3-rc4 From: Ian Kent To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Miller , thomas@m3y3r.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:02:36 +0800 In-Reply-To: References: <20120219.144947.660678318380307878.davem@davemloft.net> <1329794974.2226.11.camel@perseus.themaw.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 (3.2.3-1.fc16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 19:38 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Ian Kent wrote: > > > > Not sure this is the way you'd like to go with this but here is a patch > > that bumps the major autofs kernel communications version (as yet not > > even compile tested). > > .. and exactly how does this fix existing binaries? It doesn't but changing it for exiting binaries will break existing binaries that use a workaround. I'm proposing this because the systemd folks were happy to do it this way. But if you would like any other existing user space users to change to using a correctly sized packet then, yes, it isn't what you want to happen. Ian