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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Deprecate sysctl syscall interface
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:15:45 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Deprecate sysctl syscall interface
- References: <1524523018-7216-1-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
I don't think it makes sense at all to add a new symbol version for
something being deprecated. If you deprecate a symbol, you make the
*existing* version into a compat symbol, and stop it being declared and
stop it being defined for new ports and static linking.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com