Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262747AbTKYRMj (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:12:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262750AbTKYRMj (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:12:39 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.102]:54010 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262747AbTKYRMi (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:12:38 -0500 From: Kevin Corry To: "Kevin P. Fleming" , Joe Thornber Subject: Re: [Patch 3/5] dm: make v4 of the ioctl interface the default Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:09:07 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Linux Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds References: <20031125162451.GA524@reti> <20031125163313.GD524@reti> <3FC387A0.8010600@backtobasicsmgmt.com> In-Reply-To: <3FC387A0.8010600@backtobasicsmgmt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311251109.07831.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1424 Lines: 43 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:47, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > 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 If you have out of date tools you will need to use the v1 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. How's this look? -- Kevin Corry kevcorry@us.ibm.com http://evms.sourceforge.net/ --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig 2003-11-23 19:31:11.000000000 -0600 +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig 2003-11-25 11:07:00.000000000 -0600 @@ -138,9 +138,11 @@ config DM_IOCTL_V4 bool "ioctl interface version 4" depends on BLK_DEV_DM + default y ---help--- - Recent tools use a new version of the ioctl interface, only - select this option if you intend using such tools. + Recent tools use this new version of the ioctl interface. Only + select N for this option if you use out-of-date tools that weren't + compiled for this interface (e.g. LVM2 prior to v2.00.00). endmenu - 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/