Re: [Patch 3/5] dm: make v4 of the ioctl interface the default

From: Kevin P. Fleming
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 12:17:13 EST


Joe Thornber wrote:

For the last few months the tools have supported both v1 and v4
interfaces, allowing people to roll back to older kernels. I will
update the Kconfig help as you suggest to be more specific about the
tool versions.

My biggest concern here is that even if someone downloads the latest device-mapper tools tarball and compiles it on their system, unless they specifically point it at 2.6 kernel headers it won't compile in v4 ioctl support, so they could be unpleasantly surprised. Given the prevailing sentiment about _not_ updating /usr/include/{linux,asm} to the headers with a newly-installed kernel (but rather leaving them the same versions that libc was compiled against) this a pretty likely scenario unless I'm mistaken...

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