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Date:      Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:28:20 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r244663 - stable/9
Message-ID:  <20121225112820.GC53644@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20121225104422.GB53644@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <201212241422.qBOEMrcF021632@svn.freebsd.org> <CAJ-VmokV-JL_xZ9otRXubKZ8KQKe7GgLuLU3UMij0HUD_KhCNw@mail.gmail.com> <50D8B533.8080507@mu.org> <20121225104422.GB53644@kib.kiev.ua>

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On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 12:44:22PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:04:03PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > On 12/24/12 11:24 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > > ... why'd we break the KBI in a stable branch?
> > >
> > I am not sure either.
> >=20
> > I think a single VOP for nullfs (while ugly) would have sufficed.
> No, it doesn't.
>=20
> Even if it would be sufficient, having a switch right after the
> vtable call is silly. But, ignoring the sillyness, having a single
> VOP forces a filesystem, needed to override the single bit of behaviour,
> to override all behaviours hidden from under the common VOP. Besides
> the incovenience, it breaks the bypass. This is why I did not went
> this route in the HEAD commit.
>=20
> Making HEAD and stable diverge for the VOP table is unmaintainable.
>=20
> At least one other change which cannot be covered by the VOP table
> hacking is the struct vfsops new method.
>=20
> Traditionally (my memory goes back to 6.x branch) we did not maintained
> VFS KBI stability on the branches.

Forgot to note, you completely ignored the VOP vnode locking protocol in
your patch.

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