Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:23:55 +0100 | From | Carsten Otte <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] new dasd ioctl patchkit |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > As long as we backout the bogus eer > patch before 2.6.16 all the cleanups and even the eckd ioctl fix > can wait. But don't put this crappy interface into 1.6.16 and thus > SLES10 so that applications start to rely on it. ACK: Given that a) both Horst and Christoph think the ioctl interface needs cleanup but proposed cleanup interfers with existing functionality (cmb), and b) later cleanup would change the user-interface of eer, we should rush neither the ioctl change nor eer into .16 until the maintainer is back afaics.
Carsten --
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