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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:47:28 -0700
From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
Organization: Back to Basics Network Management
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To: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
CC: Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 3/5] dm: make v4 of the ioctl interface the default
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Joe Thornber wrote:

> Make the version-4 ioctl interface the default kernel configuration option.
> If you have out of date tools you will need to use the v1 interface.

Actually, isn't the proper way to say this "if your tools are older than 
X and/or were _not_ built against recent 2.6 headers you need to use the 
v1 interface"?

Also, if you're going to change the default you should change the help 
text correspondingly.

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