Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268586AbTGJAMQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:12:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268915AbTGJAJU (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:09:20 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:29833 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268906AbTGJAIs (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:08:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3F0CB1F3.6050104@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 20:23:15 -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: Alan Cox CC: Trond Myklebust , Marc-Christian Petersen , Marcelo Tosatti , lkml Subject: Re: ->direct_IO API change in current 2.4 BK References: <20030709133109.A23587@infradead.org> <16140.24595.438954.609504@charged.uio.no> <200307092041.42608.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <16140.25619.963866.474510@charged.uio.no> <20030709190531.GF15293@gtf.org> <16140.26693.72927.451259@charged.uio.no> <20030709191739.GH15293@gtf.org> <1057794132.7137.13.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1057794132.7137.13.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> 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 Content-Length: 696 Lines: 19 Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2003-07-09 at 20:17, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Having the stable API change, conditional on a define, is really >>nasty and IMO will create maintenance and support headaches down >>the line. I do not recall Linux VFS _ever_ having a hook's definition >>conditional. We should not start now... > > > The new quota code in 2.4.22pre already changed the rules slightly, as > do the shmemfs fixes if you are pedantic I am ;-) - 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/