From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karel Zak Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkid: add --disable-libblkid (v2) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:28:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20090430082834.GA3774@nb.net.home> References: <20090422133304.GP15541@mit.edu> <20090427092114.GA3193@nb.net.home> <20090428203635.GA3793@nb.net.home> <20090224084434.GF6020@nb.net.home> <20090324121147.GA22386@zelda.netsplit.com> <20090416102241.GA3290@nb.net.home> <1239976118.11603.109.camel@quest> <20090422133304.GP15541@mit.edu> <20090427092114.GA3193@nb.net.home> <20090429202338.GD17797@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Scott James Remnant , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:41433 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752125AbZD3I2j (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:28:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090429202338.GD17797@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:23:38PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > There have been a few bug fixes and I have some requests to detect > some new interfaces, such as VMFS, which I'll probably apply to > e2fsprogs blkid, but I don't expect to do any API or ABI changes, and > the only changes will be bugfixes and some new detection functions --- > and I'll make a point of synchronizing such improvements with > util-linux-ng. Fair enough? Yes, sounds good. My plan is send you all important patches for your e2fsprogs version and also periodically pull from your tree. > As far as I know there are no applications which have used > blkid_get_library_version(), but what I would suggest is that > util-linux-bg use a lib_version of 2.15, and people who care about Yes, lib_version in my tree is already 2.15.0 > blkid_get_lib_version(). I don't anticipate e2fsprogs ever going to a > 2.x version at this point --- we'll probably just always update the > 1.xx version, just to avoid confusion, so I don't think we need to > worry about freezing this version number. I'll just put in a comment > that util-linux-nh will have a 2.x version, and that e2fsprogs will > have a 1.x version --- not that I think anyone will really care, or > will try to sample the version number, as long as we're careful about > not screwing with the ABI. OK. Thanks. Karel -- Karel Zak