linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] blkid: add --disable-libblkid (v2)

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Message-ID: <20090430082834.GA3774@nb.net.home>
Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:28:34 +0200
From:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkid: add --disable-libblkid (v2)

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

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@...hat.com>
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