any value to supporting swap version 0 and *really* old kernels?

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 04:23:07PM -0600, Jason Schoon wrote:
>On 3/29/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

>>   to keep things simple, one would think it would be enough to
>> distinguish between 2.0 and 2.2 kernels and leave it at that, without
>> getting into the 2.1.x stream.  or just plain drop support for
>> pre-2.2 kernels.

Either support for v0 is dropped entirely, or you (resp. /me) has to
stay exact. V0 is optional now, if anyone selects it while not
desparately needing it, they are get what they deserve.

Support for 2.2 still is opportune, so i reject to plain drop it right
now.

>>                   one would think that giving someone the ability to
>> go back to a 2.2.0 (jan 1999) kernel is giving them plenty of grace as
>> it is.
>>
>> rday
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>Didn't Tito or Bernhard already drop support for v0 in favor of always using
>v1?  I seem to remember that discussion from right before the
>1.1.1release.  Perhaps that was a patch waiting for after release to
>be applied?

Yeah, it was me, fwiw.

V0 defaults to off now, while support for it is still there. I prefer to
fade this one out extremely slowly. If you don't want it, don't request
it.

If you're mkswap'ing then you'll (IIRC) get v1 per default on anything
vaguely recent.