Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933487AbbBCKLE (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2015 05:11:04 -0500 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:54935 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752649AbbBCKK4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2015 05:10:56 -0500 From: OGAWA Hirofumi To: "Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" Cc: Andreas Dilger , Heinrich Schuchardt , Linux Filesystem Development List , LKML , linux-man Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ioctl-fat.2: new manpage for the ioctl fat API References: <1422042884-10824-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> <5984550D-1518-490C-9A3F-3F9B1FA2EA00@dilger.ca> <775BBA28-BEDF-4F53-A845-D11F4337026B@dilger.ca> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:10:52 +0900 In-Reply-To: (Michael Kerrisk's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:55:55 +0100") Message-ID: <877fvze24z.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 948 Lines: 25 "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" writes: >> Given that FAT ioctls are not widely used by applications, the >> actual ABI (numeric constants) isn't changing, and the workaround >> is simple, I'd expect that the time before deprecating the old >> constants could be fairly short. > > True. And now that we're actually documenting this stuff, it would be > a good time to make the change, so that the new names appear in the > docs. > > Hirofumi, what do you think? I have no strong opinion. I'm not sure whether it has value to change this ancient stuff though. If someone wants to do, I have no objection and will do ack. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/