From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
thomas@m3y3r.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.3-rc4
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:02:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329796956.2226.20.camel@perseus.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxDXcgOHRk5aPV5aGEDT3chXgcq_ktHKutk7OcyRjDUUw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 19:38 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> >
> > Not sure this is the way you'd like to go with this but here is a patch
> > that bumps the major autofs kernel communications version (as yet not
> > even compile tested).
>
> .. and exactly how does this fix existing binaries?
It doesn't but changing it for exiting binaries will break existing
binaries that use a workaround.
I'm proposing this because the systemd folks were happy to do it this
way. But if you would like any other existing user space users to change
to using a correctly sized packet then, yes, it isn't what you want to
happen.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-21 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-19 0:27 Linus Torvalds
2012-02-19 13:42 ` Thomas Meyer
2012-02-19 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-19 19:49 ` David Miller
2012-02-19 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-20 3:28 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 3:29 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 3:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 4:02 ` Ian Kent [this message]
2012-02-21 4:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 4:52 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 5:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 5:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 5:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 5:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 5:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 5:39 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 4:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 13:03 ` Alan Cox
2012-02-21 18:26 ` Use gcc to check exported files [Was: Linux 3.3-rc4] Sam Ravnborg
2012-02-21 18:58 ` Linux 3.3-rc4 Thomas Meyer
2012-02-21 22:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 22:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 23:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-21 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-24 10:39 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-02-24 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-24 18:01 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-02-24 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-29 8:38 ` Jiri Kosina
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