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

[Kevin Corry]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:47, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Joe Thornber wrote:
> > Make the version-4 ioctl interface the default kernel configuration
> > option. If you have out of date tools you will need to use the v1
> > interface.
>
> Actually, isn't the proper way to say this "if your tools are older than
> X and/or were _not_ built against recent 2.6 headers you need to use the
> v1 interface"?
>
> Also, if you're going to change the default you should change the help
> text correspondingly.

How's this look?

-- 
Kevin Corry
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--- a/drivers/md/Kconfig	2003-11-23 19:31:11.000000000 -0600
+++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig	2003-11-25 11:07:00.000000000 -0600
@@ -138,9 +138,11 @@
 config DM_IOCTL_V4
 	bool "ioctl interface version 4"
 	depends on BLK_DEV_DM
+	default y
 	---help---
-	  Recent tools use a new version of the ioctl interface, only
-          select this option if you intend using such tools.
+	  Recent tools use this new version of the ioctl interface. Only
+	  select N for this option if you use out-of-date tools that weren't
+	  compiled for this interface (e.g. LVM2 prior to v2.00.00).
 
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