Re: [PATCH] new quota code

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:02:42PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 	[1] This also mean completely dropping support for the interim ABI
> > 	used in the early 32bit quota patches as it's mutally incompatible
> > 	to the old ABI.  But we never ever shipped that in any mainline kernels
> > 	so there's no problem.
> 
> 
> "no problem" being defined here as "multiple vendors shipped it but I 
> don't care", right?

no problem as in this was neve supported in mainline and we don't need
to introduce a third quota ABI to official kernels.  The old ABI is
still supported and the 2.5 one in addition.

> Why do we need a third (fourth?) 2.4 quota abi/api floating around?

We don't.  We support the old one and the 2.5 one.