Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262331AbTKYRRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:17:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262330AbTKYRRT (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:17:19 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-14-236-254.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.236.254]:45734 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262331AbTKYRRD (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:17:03 -0500 Message-ID: <3FC38E85.1020100@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:16:53 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back to Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Corry CC: Joe Thornber , Linux Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [Patch 3/5] dm: make v4 of the ioctl interface the default References: <20031125162451.GA524@reti> <20031125163313.GD524@reti> <3FC387A0.8010600@backtobasicsmgmt.com> <200311251109.07831.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <200311251109.07831.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> 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: 733 Lines: 17 Kevin Corry wrote: ---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 Only + select N for this option if you use out-of-date tools that weren't + compiled for this interface (e.g. LVM2 prior to v2.00.00). Actually, I don't think LVM2 uses the device mapper ioctls at all; it use libdevmapper which calls the ioctls on its behalf. - 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/