From: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>,
kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
heiko <heicars2@de.ibm.com>, Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>,
Martin <mschwid2@de.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ihno@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] new dasd ioctl patchkit
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:23:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F3397B.3090207@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060214190909.GA20527@lst.de>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As long as we backout the bogus eer
> patch before 2.6.16 all the cleanups and even the eckd ioctl fix
> can wait. But don't put this crappy interface into 1.6.16 and thus
> SLES10 so that applications start to rely on it.
ACK: Given that a) both Horst and Christoph think the ioctl interface
needs cleanup but proposed cleanup interfers with existing
functionality (cmb), and b) later cleanup would change the
user-interface of eer, we should rush neither the ioctl change nor
eer into .16 until the maintainer is back afaics.
Carsten
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Carsten Otte
IBM Linux technology center
ARCH=s390
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-15 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-14 16:53 [PATCH 0/5] new dasd ioctl patchkit Horst Hummel
2006-02-14 19:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-15 14:23 ` Carsten Otte [this message]
2006-02-15 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-16 5:46 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-15 21:14 ` Stefan Weinhuber
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-12 17:38 Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-13 7:04 ` Heiko Carstens
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