linux-kernel - Re: [dm-devel] Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink

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Message-ID: <6408.1184357578@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:12:58 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Mike Anderson <andmike@...ibm.com>
Cc:	device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:00:59 PDT, Mike Anderson said:

> No, all admin tools and interfaces function as they do today. The
> dm-netlink patch series only contains 9 deletions (actual just one true
> deletion of existing kernel code the others are due to break up of the
> patch into compilable chunks). The intent was not to break users or force
> migration.

OK, I'll bite - if the admin tools function as before, who is *using* the
code?  Or do the admin tools have a preferred netlink component and a fallback
set of code if that fails?

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