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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown@dell.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkgetsize64 ioctl
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:51:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010830145155.A3114@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108301150460.1213-100000@blap.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108301306300.12593-100000@toomuch.toronto.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108301306300.12593-100000@toomuch.toronto.redhat.com>; from bcrl@redhat.com on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:12:07PM -0400

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:12:07PM -0400, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> 
> No, that's not what's got me miffed.  What is a problem here is that an
> obvious next to use ioctl number in a *CORE* kernel api was used without
> reserving it.  AND PEOPLE SHIPPED IT!  I for one don't go about shipping
> new ABIs without reserving at least a placeholder for it in the main
> kernel (or stating that the code is not bearing a fixed ABI).  If the
> ioctl # was in the main kernel, this mess would never have happened even
> with the accidental shipping of the patch in e2fsprogs.  

... and for my part, I included the patch in e2fsprogs because Ben
sent me the patch, saying that people would want to test it, and I
assumed he had already reserved the ioctl in the kernel.  I should
have checked first....

							- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-30 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-30 16:11 Michael E Brown
2001-08-30 16:25 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-30 16:44   ` Michael E Brown
2001-08-30 16:47     ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-30 17:02       ` Michael E Brown
2001-08-30 17:12         ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-30 17:34           ` Michael E Brown
2001-08-30 18:51           ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2001-08-30 19:03             ` Alan Cox
2001-08-30 19:10               ` Michael E Brown
2001-08-30 19:18                 ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-31  1:15 Andries.Brouwer
2001-08-31  1:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-30 11:57 Andries.Brouwer
2001-08-29 22:45 Ben LaHaise
2001-08-30  0:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-30  0:16   ` Ben LaHaise

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