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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new quota code
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:21:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030708072126.A17566@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F09FC12.4070609@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:02:42PM -0400

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:02:42PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 	[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?

no problem as in this was neve supported in mainline and we don't need
to introduce a third quota ABI to official kernels.  The old ABI is
still supported and the 2.5 one in addition.

> Why do we need a third (fourth?) 2.4 quota abi/api floating around?

We don't.  We support the old one and the 2.5 one.


      reply	other threads:[~2003-07-08  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200307072105.h67L50ir024592@hera.kernel.org>
2003-07-07 23:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-08  6:21   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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