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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:52:27 +0000 From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk> To: Jeff Bailey <jbailey@...pberryginger.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, tgraf@...g.ch, drow@...se.org, stefan@...lof.de, dwmw2@...radead.org, joseph@...esourcery.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org, akpm@...l.org Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:42:45PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On 09/12/06, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > >You can't deprecate stuff visible to userspace, sorry Thomas, > >we just can't do it. > > > >You can migrate people to "better" interfaces, but you can't > >pull the rug out from anyone once things like this are visible > >to userspace. It's permanently there, and we have to live with > >that. > > Is there some way of marking it so that newer architectures that come > on don't wind up with that export? That way at least as newer > machines and arches come out, they don't have to carry the oldest > baggage. As the oldest architectures eventually get dropped, cruft > can be removed. Which architectures ever got dropped? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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