Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268700AbTGIXco (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:32:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268691AbTGIXcn (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:32:43 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:32434 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268700AbTGIXcY (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:32:24 -0400 Subject: Re: ->direct_IO API change in current 2.4 BK From: Alan Cox To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Marc-Christian Petersen , Andreas Dilger , Andrea Arcangeli , Christoph Hellwig , marcelo@connectiva.com.br, Trond Myklebust , lkml In-Reply-To: References: <20030709133109.A23587@infradead.org> <200307091954.12895.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <200307092022.35295.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1057794223.7137.15.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 10 Jul 2003 00:43:44 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 678 Lines: 16 On Mer, 2003-07-09 at 20:13, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > 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). I'm not sure I see what the fuss is about a slight API change that is safe since it spews warnings/breaks existing code that isnt fixed. At least one vendor kernel also has the changed API anyway - 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/