Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:02:42 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new quota code |
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Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > ChangeSet 1.1059, 2003/07/07 17:01:15-03:00, hch@lst.de > > [PATCH] new quota code > > Okay, here's the quota patch. Basically all changes are from Jan Kara > and I backport them from 2.5. The 32bit quota code has been shipped > by the commercial vendors ever since they used Linux 2.4 and this > particular codebase with backwards compatiblity support is around > in the 2.5, the XFS tree, -ac and -aa for a long time. The only > change over that version is that support for the old 16bit quota > format and the old quotactl ABI is enabled unconditionally, i.e. > there's no way to render your system unusable by wrong make config > choices [1]. > > [1] This also mean completely dropping support for the interim ABI > used in the early 32bit quota patches as it's mutally incompatible > to the old ABI. But we never ever shipped that in any mainline kernels > so there's no problem.
"no problem" being defined here as "multiple vendors shipped it but I don't care", right?
Why do we need a third (fourth?) 2.4 quota abi/api floating around?
Jeff
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