Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:39:02 +0000
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: 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 Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:45:11AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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).

Agreed, we'd like to do it before 2.6.0.

- Joe
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