[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: o2hb: revert hb threshold to keep compatible

[Joseph Qi]

On 17/3/29 09:07, Junxiao Bi wrote:
> On 03/29/2017 06:31 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:40:45 +0800 Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Configfs is the interface for ocfs2-tools to set configure to
>>> kernel. Change heartbeat dead threshold name in configfs will
>>> cause compatible issue, so revert it.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 45b997737a80 ("ocfs2/cluster: use per-attribute show and store methods")
>> I don't get it.  45b997737a80 was merged nearly two years ago, so isn't
>> it a bit late to fix compatibility issues?
>>
> This compatibility will not cause ocfs2 down, just some configure (hb
> dead threshold) lose effect. If someone want to use the new kernel, they
> should apply this fix.
The threshold configuration file has default value in kernel, so it will
only affect changing this value in user space.

Thanks,
Joseph
>
> Thanks,
> Junxiao.
>
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