linux-kernel - Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove CODA_FS_OLD

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:14:41 -0400
From:	Jan Harkes <jaharkes@...cmu.edu>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove CODA_FS_OLD_API

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 08:48:33PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> While fixing CONFIG_ leakages to the userspace kernel headers I ran into 
> CODA_FS_OLD_API.
> 
> After five years, are there still people using the old API left?
> Especially considering that you have to choose at compile time which API 
> to support in the kernel (and distributions tend to offer the new API 
> for some time).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@...cmu.edu>

The old API can definitely go. Around the time the new interface went in
there were some non-Coda userspace file system implementations that took
a while longer to convert to the new API, but by now they all switched
to the new interface or in some cases to a FUSE-based solution.

Jan

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