linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.3-rc4

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Message-ID: <1329796956.2226.20.camel@perseus.themaw.net>
Date:	Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:02:36 +0800
From:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, thomas@...3r.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.3-rc4

On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 19:38 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net> wrote:
> >
> > Not sure this is the way you'd like to go with this but here is a patch
> > that bumps the major autofs kernel communications version (as yet not
> > even compile tested).
> 
> .. and exactly how does this fix existing binaries?

It doesn't but changing it for exiting binaries will break existing
binaries that use a workaround.

I'm proposing this because the systemd folks were happy to do it this
way. But if you would like any other existing user space users to change
to using a correctly sized packet then, yes, it isn't what you want to
happen.

Ian


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