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Message-Id: <20120427.143402.1028957981042061092.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:34:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: mjt@....msk.ru, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
autofs@...r.kernel.org, raven@...maw.net, thomas@...3r.de,
stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix
design error.
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:19:13 -0700
> So to me, a version 6 with just this fix is just completely pointless.
> We can't just ignore existing binaries. You don't like ignoring
> existing 'automount' binaries, and Thomas doesn't like ignoring
> existing 'systemd' binaries. And I don't like ignoring *any* binaries
> that are shipped with distributions - especially when they are central
> and hard to work around.
I think what we did was break a kernel exported interface which had
5 years of precedence. Ugly, or broken, it was the state of affairs
and userland did embrace it. :-)
If systemd wants to use version 5 of this thing, it has to have the
same workaround code automountd has. It is systemd (and now the
kernel) which is broken.
We should have never touched version 5 of the data-structure. Having
5 years of workaround precedence in userspace proves this.
And we should create a version 6 as has been proposed.
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