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From: David Miller <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.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:34:02 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120427.143402.1028957981042061092.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwud1nXRr+HpzH8rSkEWcZ_rJmoE7UtQt76D=A3qcb6GQ@mail.gmail.com>

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26 13:34 [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error Michael Tokarev
2012-04-26 13:44 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-27  0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27  9:45   ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-27 15:47     ` Mark Lord
2012-04-27 20:37       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-28 22:20         ` Mark Lord
2012-04-27 16:22     ` David Miller
2012-04-27 17:10       ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-27 17:28         ` David Miller
2012-04-27 18:19     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 18:34       ` David Miller [this message]
2012-04-27 18:42         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 18:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 19:14             ` David Miller
2012-04-27 19:16               ` David Miller
2012-04-27 19:19                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 19:24                   ` David Miller
2012-04-27 19:56                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 20:13                       ` Stef Bon
2012-04-27 20:29                       ` David Miller
2012-04-27 22:40                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 20:43                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 22:42                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 22:56                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 23:07                             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-28  0:03                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-28  0:17                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 22:42                       ` Alan Cox
2012-04-27 22:49                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 23:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-28 16:10                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29  6:37                             ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-29  7:19                               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29  7:45                                 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-29 18:29                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29 19:09                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29 19:53                                       ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-29 20:53                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30  8:41                                         ` Thomas Meyer
2012-04-28  1:56               ` Ian Kent
2012-04-27 19:08           ` David Miller
2012-04-27 20:45             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 20:42       ` H. Peter Anvin

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