From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761188Ab2D0Sef (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:34:35 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:44517 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761145Ab2D0See (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:34:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:34:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120427.143402.1028957981042061092.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: mjt@tls.msk.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@vger.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net, thomas@m3y3r.de, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <4F9A6ABA.6050503@msgid.tls.msk.ru> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.0.95 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:19:13 -0700 > So to me, a version 6 with just this fix is just completely pointless. > We can't just ignore existing binaries. You don't like ignoring > existing 'automount' binaries, and Thomas doesn't like ignoring > existing 'systemd' binaries. And I don't like ignoring *any* binaries > that are shipped with distributions - especially when they are central > and hard to work around. I think what we did was break a kernel exported interface which had 5 years of precedence. Ugly, or broken, it was the state of affairs and userland did embrace it. :-) If systemd wants to use version 5 of this thing, it has to have the same workaround code automountd has. It is systemd (and now the kernel) which is broken. We should have never touched version 5 of the data-structure. Having 5 years of workaround precedence in userspace proves this. And we should create a version 6 as has been proposed.