From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 05:34:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 05:34:06 -0500 Received: from Cantor.suse.de ([194.112.123.193]:40196 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 05:34:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:33:53 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Russell King Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Hubert Mantel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 Message-ID: <20010111113353.B20569@gruyere.muc.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20010111005924.L29093@athlon.random> <200101110734.f0B7Y1x01512@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101110734.f0B7Y1x01512@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>; from rmk@arm.linux.org.uk on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:34:01AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:34:01AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > 1. Yucky code in the NFS layers to copy a nfs_fh from userspace to kernel > space, translating it into something sane. > 2. Yucky code in the NFS layers to manually handle the nfs_fh to knfs_fh > translation. > 3. Accept the breakage of a *brand new* API in 2.2.18 and suffer zero > yucky code. The change is rather useless anyways, because even in NFSv3 file handles cannot be >64bytes. Would even fit in a char, doesn't need a short nor an int. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/