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

From: "Jeff Bailey" <jbailey at raspberryginger dot com>
To: "David Miller" <davem at davemloft dot net>
Cc: tgraf at suug dot ch, drow at false dot org, stefan at loplof dot de, dwmw2 at infradead dot org, joseph at codesourcery dot com, netdev at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, akpm at osdl dot org
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 20:42:45 -0500
Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace
References: <20061208.164345.71119524.davem@davemloft.net> <20061208.171455.11932070.davem@davemloft.net> <20061209103953.GN8693@postel.suug.ch> <20061209.134552.71105673.davem@davemloft.net>

On 09/12/06, David Miller <davem@davemloft.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.

--
Jeff Bailey - http://www.raspberryginger.com/jbailey/

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace
  - From: Al Viro

References:
- Re: [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bits
  - From: David Miller
- Re: [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bits
  - From: David Miller
- [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace
  - From: Thomas Graf
- Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace
  - From: David Miller

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