Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error.

David Miller
2012-04-27T18:34:35Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:19:13 -0700

> So to me, a version 6 with just this fix is just completely pointless.
> We can't just ignore existing binaries. You don't like ignoring
> existing 'automount' binaries, and Thomas doesn't like ignoring
> existing 'systemd' binaries. And I don't like ignoring *any* binaries
> that are shipped with distributions - especially when they are central
> and hard to work around.

I think what we did was break a kernel exported interface which had
5 years of precedence. Ugly, or broken, it was the state of affairs
and userland did embrace it. :-)

If systemd wants to use version 5 of this thing, it has to have the
same workaround code automountd has. It is systemd (and now the
kernel) which is broken.

We should have never touched version 5 of the data-structure. Having
5 years of workaround precedence in userspace proves this.

And we should create a version 6 as has been proposed.