On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:50:36AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 05:41:12PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 18 2015 at 5:07pm -0400, > > > Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > But what I will do is tag this commit for 4.2-stable inclusion. > > > > > > > > Userspace will have to check the DM ioctl version to know if DM provides > > > > these extra keywords. > > > > > > I've staged the following for 4.3: > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=bd49784fd1e8f42c7600fbfa206361324857f373 > > > > > Unfortuntely the fact that there are kernels out there without this > > means that we will need to either carry a workaround in dmstats > > userspace forever or just disallow use of these features on those > > kernels. > > That's why I think it should be submitted to 4.2 now - so that there won't > be an upstream kernel without this feature. Agreed: that's the ideal situation. Regards, Bryn. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
