Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:45:11 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | 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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