[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 3/7] Differentiate between no_controld and with_controld

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.com
Wed Oct 2 02:49:21 PDT 2013


On 2013-09-27T12:07:53, Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn at suse.de> wrote:

> This is done primarily for backward compatibility. I hope we do
> away with this sooner than later ;)

I'd actually be quite happy if we could do away with this directly.

Users that want to remain on an older user-space code base can always
revert this or stick to a stable long-term kernel. That may be an
unpopular opinion ;-)

The relevant GFS2 commit seems to be
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/gfs2?id=e0c2a9aa1e68455dc3439e95d85cabcaff073666


Regards,
    Lars

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