Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261262AbTIYRMK (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:12:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261263AbTIYRMJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:12:09 -0400 Received: from fmr09.intel.com ([192.52.57.35]:45271 "EHLO hermes.hd.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261262AbTIYRMC (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:12:02 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Shmulik Hen Reply-To: shmulik.hen@intel.com Organization: Intel corp. To: "Chad N. Tindel" Subject: Re: [Bonding-announce] [PATCH SET][bonding] cleanup Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:11:53 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, bonding-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Jay Vosburgh , "Noam, Amir" , "Mendelson, Tsippy" , "Noam, Marom" References: <200309251549.59177.shmulik.hen@intel.com> <20030925164719.GA45241@calma.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20030925164719.GA45241@calma.pair.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200309252011.53960.shmulik.hen@intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1185 Lines: 28 On Thursday 25 September 2003 07:47 pm, Chad N. Tindel wrote: > > patch 4 - remove dead code, old compatibility stuff and redundant > > checks. > > I'm a bit concerned about doing some of this stuff in the 2.4 > series. That compatibility stuff is there for a reason, and was > set to be removed in 2.6. Perhaps we shouldn't be doing stuff this > drastic until 2.6 because of the risk of breaking users. That's the word I got from Jay in response to the " [Kernel-janitors] old ioctl definitions in 2.5" thread. >Jay Vosburgh wrote: > I was going to add it on to the end of the clean up set, but > if you want to do it, go ahead. Nobody seems to have objected to > removing the _OLD stuff, which I view as a good thing. -- | Shmulik Hen Advanced Network Services | | Israel Design Center, Jerusalem | | LAN Access Division, Platform Networking | | Intel Communications Group, Intel corp. | - 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/