Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751410AbWEDGz6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 02:55:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751411AbWEDGz6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 02:55:58 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34026 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751410AbWEDGz5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 02:55:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] symlink nesting level change From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Al Viro , hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20060503183554.87f0218d.akpm@osdl.org> References: <14CFC56C96D8554AA0B8969DB825FEA0012B309B@chicken.machinevisionproducts.com> <44580CF2.7070602@tlinx.org> <20060503030849.GZ27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20060503183554.87f0218d.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:55:49 +0200 Message-Id: <1146725750.3101.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 611 Lines: 17 > But I guess as major distros are 2.6.16-based, this is a good time to make > this change. several major distros already had this set to 8 anyway : and your argument that this is a behavior break... holds for any improvement and new driver to the kernel as well.. at some point it's "if you use the new behavior, don't assume you can go back without losing it" - 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/