Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:45:11 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 08:18:25PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:29:49PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > 'last few months' is extremely short for a migration path. Can't we
> > ditch the v1 interface in 2.7 and allow people to migrate slowly?
> 
> People still using LVM2/device-mapper userspace components that 
> don't support v4 really should upgrade them to fix some significant
> (unrelated) issues with those old versions.
>...

The point is IMHO a different one:

Kill the v1 interface before 2.6.0 or in 2.7 .

It's never a good idea to remove something inside a stable kernel series
(e.g. the DRI support for XFree86 4.0 will never be removed from 2.4).

> Alasdair

cu
Adrian

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