Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266126AbTGITwJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:52:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266108AbTGITwJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:52:09 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:13188 "EHLO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266132AbTGITvs (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:51:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 16:13:07 -0300 (BRT) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva To: Marc-Christian Petersen Cc: Andreas Dilger , Andrea Arcangeli , Christoph Hellwig , marcelo@connectiva.com.br, Trond Myklebust , lkml Subject: Re: ->direct_IO API change in current 2.4 BK In-Reply-To: <200307092022.35295.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Message-ID: References: <20030709133109.A23587@infradead.org> <200307091954.12895.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <200307092022.35295.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 35 On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > On Wednesday 09 July 2003 20:08, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Hi Marcelo, > > > Ok, right. Well, I dont know why it doesnt happen there. Maybe not enough > > testing? > aehm, I'll bet -aa is tested _alot_ and also -wolk has tons of testers, but > well, this is a different talk ;) > > > Anyway, I'm going to revert the NFS DIRECT IO patch because, as Christoph > > mentioned, breaks the API. > > I except another solution from Trond (maybe ->direct_IO2). > I wonder why you merge such stuff then in the first place, if you agree with > hch's opinion, that an API should not change in stable kernel series in the > 2nd place? ... Did you temporarly forget it? ;) No, I did not. I applied it because, in my ignorance, I did not noticed it would break the stable API. I applied it because I wanted comments useful from people (Like hch and others did). Thank you very much for your flaming. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/