Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:00:16 +0000 | From | Joe Thornber <> | 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.
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