From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
nfs@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: nfs-utils-1.0.5 is not backwards compatible with 2.4
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:55:44 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16173.44816.973033.11872@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Chip Salzenberg on Friday August 1
On Friday August 1, chip@pobox.com wrote:
> According to Neil Brown:
> > I don't know if there is any such code, but if there is I apoligize for
> > breaking it and suggest that the best fix is to not use the header
> > file it was using but it explicitly include the values for NFSEXP_* in
> > that code.
>
> The only really bad thing about the current situation is that the name
> "NFSEXP_CROSSMNT" is poisoned by having had two historical
> definitions. So it that name should be dropped, IMO, and replaced by
> something textually different. "NFSEXP_XMOUNT", perhaps. Even
> "NFSEXP_CROSSMNT2" would work. Just as long as code that said
> "CROSSMNT" to mean "NOHIDE" wouldn't accidentally get CROSSMNT instead.
If we were to change it, I would prefer NFSEXP_CROSSMOUNT.
I might send such a patch to Linus and update nfs-utils if/when it
gets included (or should 2.6 patches start going to Andrew now??)
NeilBrown
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-04 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-31 17:12 nfs-utils-1.0.5 is not backwards compatible with 2.4 Steve Dickson
2003-07-31 18:23 ` Kernel 2.4 and 2.6 disagree about NFSEXP_CROSSMNT - upward incompatibility, please fix Chip Salzenberg
2003-07-31 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-01 2:55 ` nfs-utils-1.0.5 is not backwards compatible with 2.4 Neil Brown
2003-08-01 12:43 ` Steve Dickson
2003-08-04 0:52 ` Neil Brown
2003-08-01 14:38 ` Chip Salzenberg
2003-08-04 0:55 ` Neil Brown [this message]
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