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Message-ID: <45842BCB.1030506@garzik.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:24:27 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] more ftape removal
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> This patch removes some more ftape code.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
>> this affects userspace exported headers, so I'm not sure we want to kill
>> that. even if the interface is gone is current kernels, people might
>> want to build binaries against these headers that work on older kernels.
>
> Can you be more specific?
>
> Building ftape-utils has already been broken by you removing four
> userspace exported ftape headers in your ftape removal patch.
One would expect that to break. I'm more concerned about things like
util-linux or mt-st.
But you're right, we should probably remove everything at a set.
Jeff
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