linux-kernel - Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace

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Message-Id: <20061209.134928.78719042.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:49:28 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tgraf@...g.ch
Cc:	stefan@...lof.de, drow@...se.org, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	joseph@...esourcery.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	libc-alpha@...rceware.org, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 13:55:33 +0100

> The point is to stop new applications from using the interface which has
> resulted in buggy code in the past.

You don't get people to use new interface by breaking the
build on them in userspace.

You get them to do it by making suggestions and informing them, not
by forcing them.

That's why 1) you can't get rid of these macros, ever, but 2) you can
warn them by using inline functions and depcrecated attribute tags.
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