Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:00:16 +0000
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
Cc: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>,
       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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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:15:18AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Joe Thornber wrote:
> 
> >For the last few months the tools have supported both v1 and v4
> >interfaces, allowing people to roll back to older kernels.  I will
> >update the Kconfig help as you suggest to be more specific about the
> >tool versions.
> 
> My biggest concern here is that even if someone downloads the latest 
> device-mapper tools tarball and compiles it on their system, unless they 
> specifically point it at 2.6 kernel headers it won't compile in v4 ioctl 
> support, so they could be unpleasantly surprised.

The tools build against their own copies of the header files.

- Joe
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