From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261808AbTGGWsT (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:48:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262445AbTGGWsT (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:48:19 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:41396 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261808AbTGGWsS (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:48:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3F09FC12.4070609@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:02:42 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List CC: Marcelo Tosatti , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] new quota code References: <200307072105.h67L50ir024592@hera.kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <200307072105.h67L50ir024592@hera.kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > ChangeSet 1.1059, 2003/07/07 17:01:15-03:00, hch@lst.de > > [PATCH] new quota code > > Okay, here's the quota patch. Basically all changes are from Jan Kara > and I backport them from 2.5. The 32bit quota code has been shipped > by the commercial vendors ever since they used Linux 2.4 and this > particular codebase with backwards compatiblity support is around > in the 2.5, the XFS tree, -ac and -aa for a long time. The only > change over that version is that support for the old 16bit quota > format and the old quotactl ABI is enabled unconditionally, i.e. > there's no way to render your system unusable by wrong make config > choices [1]. > > [1] This also mean completely dropping support for the interim ABI > used in the early 32bit quota patches as it's mutally incompatible > to the old ABI. But we never ever shipped that in any mainline kernels > so there's no problem. "no problem" being defined here as "multiple vendors shipped it but I don't care", right? Why do we need a third (fourth?) 2.4 quota abi/api floating around? Jeff